Sentence examples for Greenthumb from inspiring English sources

The number swelled beyond 1,000 after the parks department's GreenThumb program was established in 1978.

"This would be a policy change from preservation to the ability to develop," said Aresh Javadi of the New York City Community Garden Coalition, who said he was planning to meet with officials to ask that the city make all GreenThumb gardens permanent.

Under the 2002 agreement, the city preserved 198 community gardens in the parks department's GreenThumb program, increased the protection of 197 other gardens and agreed not to develop 100 gardens maintained by the Department of Education.

Agriculture is not formally included in its green infrastructure plan, but at a time when the budget for the Parks Department's GreenThumb community gardening program may be slashed, and teachers struggle to raise money to build school gardens, using DEP's resources to expand urban agriculture could be one of the most effective means of achieving a greener and healthier city.

The entire GreenThumb staff, including seasonal employees, numbers 15 to 20 people.

The garden's demise this year is one of the long-delayed outcomes of a dispute in the 1990's over the construction of housing on community gardens, which had been established under the city's GreenThumb program to spruce up deteriorating neighborhoods.

The legislation, introduced by Councilman José E. Serrano of the Bronx and five other council members, proposes that gardens deemed worthy of preservation be managed by the city's Greenthumb program, with ownership maintained by the Parks Department.

Ms. Danz and her longtime collaborator, Mary Fulham, created the Mrs. Greenthumbs character in 1991 for "An Evening With Mrs. Greenthumbs," a one-woman show presented at the Ancram Opera House in Ancram, N.Y.

Ms. Danz will talk at 6 p.m. on "Know and Grow Your Poisonous Plants -- Lethal Favorites from Mrs. Greenthumbs".

Cassandra Danz, who mixed her comedic skills with a love of gardening to become the television gardening expert Mrs. Greenthumbs, died on Sunday in Brooklyn.

The protesters claim that the garden is an Operation Greenthumb site, and so protected from development.