Ownership/Management: Gregory Rosen
The Manse Garden is a veganic educational community garden in Dobbs Ferry, New York, with the goals of contributing to the local food movement, food sovereignty, and ecological restoration. We operate under Roots & Wings, the sustainability initiative of South Presbyterian Church. We offer crops to participants in our on-site workshops & tours that rely on suggested donations. The space includes a fenced off garden and backyard with lawn and woods. For the last three seasons we have only used veganic methods, amending the soil using compost, wood chips, and wood ash. In the fenced garden, crops have included annual vegetables such as corn, beans, squash, potatoes, sweet potatoes, turnips, radishes, tomatoes, lettuce, carrots, sunflowers, and scallions, in addition to native edible plants such as Jerusalem artichoke, prickly pear cactus, ground cherry, purple passion fruit, evening primrose, American groundnut, milkweed, Staghorn sumac, mountain mint, tiger nuts, Man-of-the-earth, Virginia strawberry, coneflower, and bee balm. On the lawn and in the woods area, we are growing native edible shrubs & trees such as highbush blueberry, pawpaw, beach plum, American plum, dwarf chestnut, and hazelnut. We have also grown oyster mushrooms on cardboard and spent coffee grounds.
Contact Info: forstfolk.ny@gmail.com
