50 cent - Green Thumb!
50 cent & Bette Midler! -- Dedicate Community Garden In Home Neighborhood

Posted by Staff on March 02, 2009 2:28 pm

Nov 4, 2008 NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. --  50 Cent is a rapper, actor and now — green thumb?

Along with Bette Midler, the unlikely duo teamed up to celebrate the opening of “The Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson Community Garden” in Queens, New York.

And how did Bette and 50 get together for the project?   "We own 60 of these community gardens," she said. "We took ownership of this one. This one was a very successful one, but they wanted little renovations here and there. We looked all over town for a group that was interested in these sort of things. We found G-Unity."

The garden features plenty of flowers, a vegetable garden, a community area where people can have barbecues and wher movies will be shown — and also a rainwater-collection system. Instead of paying for water to be shipped in, the garden collects water and sends it into a tank underground, from which it can then be pumped. Fittingly, the garden was designed by a man named Professor Walter Hood, a professor of landscape architecture at the University of California at Berkeley.

The rapper-turned-philanthropist promised more events like this in the future, such as "50's First Annual 40 Day," geared toward the people who live in and around the borough's South Jamaica Houses (a.k.a. "40 Projects"). Also in the planning stages is "Baisley Day" for the neighborhood's Baisley Park, in which 50's community garden is located.

"We're gonna make it happen the way we been making it happen, right here," he told the crowd.

Related:

http://www.gunityfoundation.org/successes-nyrestoration.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfKeLDlEP5g

 

 

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