Spring Planting!

Our first planting day will be next Saturday, April 22 at 11am!

Community Beds

We will be concentrating on direct sowing (planting seeds) spring vegetables - radish, beet, greens, kale, peas, etc - but may have some starts that are ready to be planted as well. It's early in the season and we will be succession planting. The fenceline by community beds to be re-built due to fence work and herbs will be replanted along with some potted peas to grow up the fence (beans will follow later in season).

Community Area Perimeter

We will be planting annuals, berry canes, replanting strawberries, relocating rose bushes. As well as, fixing the border along perimeter and building up soil along Putnam soil, which is currently uneven

Community Area Plan

Community Bed Plan

First meeting of the year!

Our first meeting is Wednesday, March 1st at 7pm in the basement of L' Antagoniste restaurant located at 238 Malcolm X Blvd on the corner of Hancock Street. If you intend on coming, please be prompt, as we would like to keep to an hour.

If you are interested in becoming a member, please join us! We will only be accepting new members at meetings (first Weds of every month) in order to streamline the process.

Garden is getting Transferred to the Parks Department

There's good news in the garden today! The garden is being transferred to Parks Department from Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) so it will be preserved!!! The Mayor is announced this last week, and GreenThumb notified us. They haven't provided us with any details as to what the procedure is yet, and will follow up after the New Year, so Kenny and I will keep you all in the loop as we know more. 

596 Acres, New York City Community Garden Coalition, and gardeners from around New York City worked tirelessly this past year to agitate and guide GreenThumb, Parks, and the mayor to make this happen and support us along with the 17 other threatened gardens. It is the end of year, and non-profits are fundraising to support their next year of work. If you have a few bucks to spare, please consider donating to these groups (it's also a tax write-off) and support their work. 

Press:

• Brooklyn Community Gardeners React to De Blasio Admin. Deal, Brooklyn Deep
• 34 Community Gardens Saved From Demolition After City Makes Them Parks, DNAinfo
• Gonzalez: Bill de Blasio adds affordable housing while preserving NYC’s gardens, Daily News
• City Hall to preserve some community gardens, build housing on others, Capital New York

Spring Update

It's been quite a weird Spring with the weather, and we are just starting to ramp up activity in the garden while continuously working with New York City Community Garden Coalition (NYCCGC) and 596 Acres to combat the threat of constructing residential units in the lot.

Our first volunteer day this year will be with Green School: An Academy for Environmental Careers where students will help clean and organize the garden on Friday, May 8th. They worked with us last Spring and we're excited to have them back!

On Saturday, May 9th, there will be a volunteer day to finish up any uncompleted tasks that the Green School didn't finish. We will also be building four new garden beds and digging them out for our members! If you have the time or a cordless drill, please come out and help! If you're interested in gardening with us this summer, this would be a perfect opportunity to chat with us about membership.

We will be holding a BBQ fundraiser this spring on June 6th from noon to 4pm. We will be selling pre-sale tickets for $10 each. More details to follow.

Artfully Unforgotten will be holding a workshop on June 27th. Artfully Unforgotten organizes workshops of participatory art projects to explore larger social and environmental issues and build community vitality. More details to follow.

This year, we also plan on finishing the shed (doors and windows) and building out the interior; move and build a better composter with our new member and master composter, Tymberly Canale; and hook up barrels to the shed roof for a rain catchment system. Stay tuned for details on these projects!