Through the generous sponsorship of BNP Paribas presenting sponsor of MillionTreesNYC Month 1,250 FREE trees will be available for adoption throughout the Citys five boroughs this May. Trees will be distributed by New York Restoration Project (NYRP) at four Council on the Environment of New York City (CENYC) Greenmarkets and the Riverdale, Bronx YM-YWHAs Environmental Fair, with 250 trees being given away to homeowners and families at each tree-distribution site.

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Scripture calls upon us to be good stewards of Creation. Explore the contemporary connection between faith and sustainably and humanely produced food with this very special SLOW U panel: Sister Miriam McGillis of Genesis Farm (NJ), Greenmarket organic farmers Eve Kaplan Walbrecht of Garden of Eve Farm (LI, NY) and Zaid Kurdieh of Norwich Meadows Farm (NY).

There will be an evening of poetry and music to celebrate the vernal equinox and with it, the return of farmers carting their green wares to the city. Proceeds will benefit Nesenkeag Farm and the New Farmer Development Project in New York.