More than 120 years after a forester at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo first documented the chestnut blight that would ultimately wipe out nearly 4 billion American chestnut trees,

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I’m sexy and I grow it! You CAN garden and look and feel fabulous during harvest time; it’s not just dirty fingernails and a farmer’s tan! Live it up!

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Bette Midler once spent her mornings clearing parks in Northern Manhattan that the city had all but abandoned. Thirty years later, that early effort has grown into the New York Restoration Project

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Bette Midler is in the garden

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Midler liked her story: Nichols felt burned out, left the traditional fashion system, and later started a business on her own terms, built around gardening, nature, and design.

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Fifty appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to promote his new, UK-based TV show Fightland. Yet he spent a lot of time talking about Bette Midler and how she roped him into helping restore green spaces in New York.

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NYRP’s legendary Hulaween gala returns this October with Hulaween on Horror Reef: Monsters of the Deep.

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The effort was driven by a partnership between New York City Parks and the New York Restoration Project, founded by singer and environmental activist Bette Midler.

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Video: Bette Midler Talks About NYRP

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On November 20, 2015, a public ceremony was held at Joyce Kilmer Park in the Bronx to celebrate the success of MillionTreesNYC.

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