Sixth Street/Avenue B Community Garden
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Overview
In English and German (German see below / Deutsch siehe unten)
The garden serves as an anchor of local community gardening groups and as a working model of preservation for an energetic greening movement. It has over 15 fruiting trees, more than 50 flowering shrubs and innumerable herbs, flowers and vegetables. The fence, also designed by garden members, represents the members' "hands-on" contributions in creating the garden. And it has a 37-foot internationally-famous and always-controversial sculpture of NYC street treasures created by a garden member and lifelong neighborhood resident. Sixth Street/Avenue B Community Garden is one of a network of community gardens, which have transformed the environment of the Lower East Side.
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Der Garten dient als Zufluchtsort der lokalen Gartengemeindegruppen und als ein funktionierendes Präservierungsmodell für eine aktive grüne Bewegung. Er hat über 15 Obstbäume, mehr als 50 blühende Sträucher und unzählige Gewürze, Blumen und Gemüsesorten. Der Zaun, ebenfalls gestaltet von Gartenmitgliedern, repräsentiert die Hände von den Mitgliedern, die bei der Gestaltung des Gartens mitgewirkt haben. Und er besitzt eine 35 Fuß große, weltberühmte und immer umstrittene Skulptur aus NYC´s Straßenschätzen, erstellt von einem Gartenmitglied und lebenslangen Nachbarschaftsanwohner. Sixth Street/Avenue B Community Garden ist einer von einem ganzen Netzwerk von Gemeindegärten der zur Veränderung der Umwelt in der Lower East Side beigetragen hat.
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