Grow! Lincoln Park Community Garden Holds Benefit Sunday For Garden, Greenhouse

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — Grow! Lincoln Park Community Garden is holding a benefit to expand programming Sunday, Oct. 22. The event — “Autumn In NewRo” — will be held from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Jolo’s Restaurant, 49 Lawton St. in New Rochelle. Organizers said this is the community group’s first fundraiser.

Tickets are $50 per person. (For more information on this and other neighborhood stories, subscribe to Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts.)

Proceeds will go to the creation of a native plants butterfly garden and greenhouse which will expand the organization’s programing for children and adults, teaching them how to select seeds for starting seedlings, planting in beds and harvesting crops.

The benefit event will feature the jazz of the Jon Backer Ensemble and Rocky Middleton & Friends. Small plates, prepared by Chef Jolo, will be served during the fundraiser.

Grow! Lincoln Park Community Garden expanded last year to 10,000 square feet and 60 raised garden beds from 5,000 square feet and 30 raised beds. The expansion was part of the city’s Lincoln Park Mast Plan, funded by a Community Development Block Grant.

Water was also installed in the organic, legacy community garden which sits on the site of the former Lincoln Elementary School, which was at the center of the first desegregation case filed in a northern city after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision of 1954.

To RSVP or for more info, call 914-224-4243 or email growLPCG@gmail.com.

Checks, made payable to Friends of New Rochelle Parks with “grow! Lincoln Park” in the memo line, should be mailed to grow! LPCG, City Hall, Parks & Recreation, 515 North Ave., New Rochelle, N 10801.

Photo credit: grow! Lincoln Park Community Garden.