Moon Nurseries, Inc.
City-funded organization
Moon Nurseries, Inc. is a wholesale horticultural nursery headquartered in Chesapeake City, Maryland, that grows and sells balled-and-burlapped trees, shrubs, and container plants to wholesale customers only, per Wikipedia; the company traces its roots to 1767 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with its modern operation founded in 1971 and its current Maryland site established in 1989. Its relationship with New York City is as an out-of-state vendor to the Department of Parks and Recreation, which has awarded it $25 million since 2009 across five contracts, all badged Competitive sealed bid, for street tree procurement, including "Procurement of Street Trees Region 2" ($11.4 million, ended 2026) and separate tree procurement contracts for the Bronx ($6.7 million), Brooklyn ($5.1 million), and a citywide FY2014 tree contract ($1.3 million); $14 million has been paid to date.
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Goods
- City contracts
- none active as of 2026-08-22 · $24,921,683 awarded since 2009
- Paid to date
- $14,059,340
- Based in
- Chesapeake City, MD (out of state)
Holds contracts at
- Department of Parks and Recreation City agency
City contracts
Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).
- Procurement of Street Trees Region 2 Department of Parks and Recreation · CT184620181415587 · ended 2026 $11,430,862
- THE PROCUREMENT OF STREET TREES FROM REGION 3, BOROUGH OF BX Department of Parks and Recreation · CT184620090023809 · ended 2018 $6,663,891
- Procurement of Street Trees, Borough of Brooklyn Department of Parks and Recreation · CT184620090023784 · ended 2018 $5,104,243
- CITYWIDE TREE PROCURMENT FOR FY 2014 Department of Parks and Recreation · CT184620141415256 · ended 2019 $1,314,288
- Procurement of Container Trees in Brooklyn & Queens Department of Parks and Recreation · CT184620181402287 · ended 2022 $408,398