Event

GreenThumb Gardeners' Bus to ACGA

Get on the BUS!

Thanks to generous donations by Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi, The American Community Gardening Association, and The GreenThumb community Fund, Inc., we are able to provide discounted travel, conference registration, and lodging for registered GreenThumb community gardeners who want to attend the ACGA annual conference.

For $200, you receive conference registration including most meals, a shared hotel room, and round trip bus transportation from Manhattan to Atlanta. You must pay $100 ($99 + convenience fee) in advance via this website to reserve a space, first come first serve. Balance due in the form of a check or money order when the bus departs August 4th.

Arrive by 11:40PM on Wednesday, August 4th.

The bus will leave from the GreenThumb office.
49 Chambers Street
(b/t Broadway and Elk St)
10007 NY, NY

Subway: J, M, Z, 4, 5, 6 to Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall; R
to City Hall; 1, 2, 3, A, C, E to Chambers St
Bus: M22 or X15 to Civic Ctr/Chambers St

We will travel overnight arriving in Atlanta at approximately 2pm on August 5. It is a deluxe coach with ac, video, bathrooms and room for 49 passengers in comfy seats.

Once in Atlanta, rooms near the conference site at the Baymont or Wyndham hotels will be provided at no cost. They may be shared rooms, two persons each. Conference registration begins Thursday evening. The bus will also remain with us. It will be departing from Atlanta at 5pm on Sunday August 8th, arriving in New York City the following morning.

Once you register here, GreenThumb will send you a conference registration form to complete. For information on the conference offerings please go to www.communitygarden.org

YOU DO NOT NEED TO REGISTER on the ACGA WEBSITE, your conference space is reserved once you sign up here.