Winning competition design by Billie Cohen Ltd. was executed and opened in 2006. Sponsored by Rodale Press in partnership with New York Restoration Project, this community garden restores an underdeveloped lot in East Harlem. Rodale Pleasant Park Community Garden is driven by the community – intensely used and tended by local families, flourishing with grape, cilantro, tomatillos, beans and berries. Green construction methods are part of the mix throughout: an on-site Clivis composting toilet ventilated by solar energy panels produces 100% liquid nitrogen at the end of the composting process, a rainwater collection system from a neighboring roof provides irrigation water and bales of hay with plaster covering are used as a base for the tool shed. Framing the beds and church view is a habitat garden attracting butterflies and hummingbirds.