Using iNaturalist for Community Gardens | GreenThumb GrowTogether

Rain date: Saturday, April 23, same time. Tickets will be available until two days before the event. This will allow us time to prepare for the attendees who have registered in advance. Walk-ins and people on the wait list are welcome to attend and observe, but supplies aren’t guaranteed.

iNaturalist is a community/citizen science platform where anyone can record their observations – photos or audio recordings – of any living thing anywhere in the world. Community gardeners and visitors can use iNaturalist to document and keep records about their gardens, such as flowering and fruiting times; identify and keep track of common weeds; and identify insect visitors, whether pests, predators, or pollinators.

In this workshop, we will use iNaturalist “in the field” to make observations of plants and insects and upload them to iNaturalist, creating a record of the biodiversity in a community garden. If you have access to a smartphone, please download the iNaturalist app in advance and bring it to the workshop!

Facilitated by Chris Kreussling, Flatbush Gardener. Chris has been gardening in NYC since 1981. His current garden is a registered wildlife and pollinator habitat, butterfly garden, and monarch waystation where he has documented over 400 insect species. He is an active contributor of Observations to INaturalist, and the Brooklyn Borough Captain for the NYC City Nature Challenge, the largest community science event in the world.

Please visit the GreenThumb GrowTogether Conference Guide for a full list of workshop descriptions, facilitators, and other details. The guide is also available as a map.