Roosevelt Island Garden

If one does not walk north of Manhattan Park towards the Lighthouse, it is unlikely that you are aware of a patch of land that is the Roosevelt Island Garden Club. I am curious if anyone knows anything at all about how to become a member though I understand there is a long waiting list. RIOC's Ask Erica column has some information here (scroll down a bit).
Here is a 2002 description from the Main Street Wire:

A plot of land you can call your own in the middle of the city: that is the allure of the Roosevelt Island Garden Club. Its garden in Octagon Park is a patchwork of 139 individual pieces but, with a little effort, it can be decoded as a quilt-map of the community.

The garden is deceptive. Occupying less than two acres, it seems bigger because of a trick of perspective – the jumble of miniature landscapes framed in the distance by the towers of the East Side.

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Several of the club’s leaders were among the first residents of Roosevelt Island. They arrived at a time when the community garden movement was sprouting in New York City (the Green Guerrillas take credit for the first garden, at Bowery and Houston, in 1974). This movement – postwar, post-Whole Earth – acquired an ambitious agenda that included reclaiming abandoned lots, stabilizing neighborhoods, and improving air quality and biodiversity.

More,

Public access was one of the ground rules; that is why the garden is open to the public for limited hours on weekends during the summer. And eight plots, in four enclosures with raised planters, were built to accommodate gardeners in wheelchairs. But the club’s desire to expand to 200 plots was thwarted because the City, which retained control of the water-tunnel construction site, put in two air shafts instead of one, Berdy said. Plans for a “Hanging Garden” overlook never materialized, nor did a lawn that opened onto the East River, connected by a promenade to the Island’s thoroughfare. Now it’s a Promenade to Nowhere. In the end, only 9 of the 15 acres of Octagon Park were developed.

Finally,

The club has a good deal with RIOC. There is no fee for use of the site, no payment for water. The tradeoff, however, seems to be what the gardeners consider rather indifferent treatment.

The video was taken at the Roosevelt Island Garden Club