The day started with a tour around the edges of the Lower East Side with Green Map and Wendy Brawer and Ben Shepard of Times-up!

The tour also was a discussion which looked into potential solutions for future flooding. The water marks basically were close to the original edge from this map of the Lower East Side in 1607.

The tour stopped at the clean-up day at Siempre Verde garden, one of the Lower East Side’s gardens on Attorney and Stanton. Times-Up volunteers showed up in their abundant merriment.

The garden is growing on top of building rubble. The center of the garden has a deep depression which could make a great rain garden to catch the rain water and soak it back in to the ground. The soil put on one side to create a high growing area and will eventually spread out to make a more even planting surface.