Upper Green Side

Giving Thanks for a Great Greenmarket Season

This year local food greenmarkets returned to the Upper East Side. It was a truly community effort to bring the markets to the local area. Upper Green Side was founded by a group of local volunteers to advocate for the Greenmarkets. The local Community Board provided a forum for local residents to suggest locations, have their concerns directly addressed by the people who run the greenmarkets. Local elected officials like Councilmembers Jessica Lappin and Dan Garodnick helped mobilize community support by aiding Upper Green Side’s efforts and opened doors at St. Stephen’s Church and the Isaac’s/Holmes Towers to get local institutions to agree to host the new greenmarkets.

And in return our community came out and supported the Greenmarkets by spending their money on fresh great locally grown produce that supports local farmers and helps protect their land from development. And along the way, neighbors talked to each other, kids met real farmers, we all cooked a little more for ourselves and did something good for the environment.

So to celebrate this revival of the Greenmarkets in our neighborhood, please take a few moments to thank those who made this possible:

Councilmember Jessica Lappin: lappin [at] council.nyc.ny.us
Councilmember Dan Garodnick: garodnick [at] council.nyc.ny.us
Community Board 8, David Liston (Chairman): info [at] cb8m.com
Council on the Environment, President Marcel Van Ooyen: mvanooyen [at] cenyc.org

Send them your thanks. Tell them you want more of these in our neighborhood.