April EcoQuest

Come to a Community Garden

This month's EcoQuest is a little different than most. This April we are aiming to highlight the City's urban greenspaces by creating an umbrella project that showcases the observations of wildlife within NYC's community gardens. The goal is to showcase the immense habitat potential these urban gardens provide for wildlife, as well as encourage New Yorkers to explore their communities.

Additionally, many community gardens are undefined on iNaturalist. For an added challenge, we encourage you to find greenspaces that are undefined on iNaturalilst, and create a place and project for them to increase their representation on the iNaturalist map. Instructions for creating a place and project can be found on our journal post for April. If you create a project for a garden, or find one that is not included in this umbrella project, please message @tohmi or @glyptostrob0ides so we can add it to this project, and create a resource for anyone to find greenspaces near them as well as the wildlife they support.