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Green spaces, such as parks, street trees, and gardens, help a city be more sustainable because they affect the city’s air quality, temperature, and wastewater treatment demands while providing people with a safe place to be outdoors. The staff and volunteers of New York City parks and other city green spaces play a pivotal role in maintaining the quality of those areas and determining how effective they can be in adding to the city’s long-term survival and improved quality of living.
In response to this need for healthy and sustainable green spaces, we organize professional development trainings in horticulture and ecology. Training employees who manage these landscapes in ecology, horticultural skills, and research-based management strategies allows them to better care for the City’s green spaces. Our participants also gain skills and experiences that help them be more competitive in their professions.
Trainings are tailored to the client’s specific needs, taking into account audience, location, and participants’ professional job requirements. Previously covered topics include botany and plant physiology, geology, soils and soil health management, winter and spring tree identification, pruning shrubs and trees, herbaceous plants (perennials, annuals, bulbs), plant diseases and insects, planting and maintenance, turf management, weeds, and urban ecosystems and biodiversity. |
Participants prepare a shrub for transplanting using newly learned techniques.
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