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Youth Farm Farmers Market Open Every Wednesday
The 2016 market season is in full swing at the Youth Farm.
Market tables are full of locally grown produce at an amazing youth-powered farmers market every Wednesday from 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm through October 26th.
The market is located right on the Youth Farm at the High School for Public Service, 600 Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
For more info CLICK HERE
Bronx Tourism Council Trolley Tour
AUGUST 6
Community Market & Garden
Their summer tour will feature the bounty of fresh food grown in the Bronx and available at local farmers’ markets. Padre Plaza Community Garden boasts food production, a Wednesday market and seasonal events in the garden. Brook Park, in the heart of the South Bronx is a must-see, a community hub for green growth, not just of plants but of people. The tour will stop at the South Bronx Farmers Market to allow for some shopping of farm fresh produce on the way to the final stop, La Finca del Sur Urban Farm, whose crops contribute to the community market.
Tour Guide: Sheryll Durrant, Garden Manager for Kelly Street Garden
Tickets are $30.
Click here to purchase tickets
11th Annual Food Heritage Festival
Saturday, June 18th – 2 pm to 9 pm
at the beautiful, historic Hattie Carthan Community Garden
700 Marcy Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
This year’s theme “Our Food is Our Culture” is a community offering of foods from the African Diaspora. One of the most interesting things about the food of the African Diaspora is how closely it connects the people who prepare it, often without them even realizing it. There are several characteristics that almost all cuisines of the African Diaspora share: seasoning techniques; cooking techniques, such as stewing and frying; and the prevalence of starchy mashes or porridges eaten with stews and soups or on their own. African, Latin, and Caribbean cuisine ingredients are nearly identical, most likely due to the similarity in climate. Tropical foods such as plantains, cassava, coconuts, and palm oil are staples in West African and Afro-Brazilian cooking. The distinctive ingredients of southern cuisine, as well as the styles of cooking them, have been common for centuries in Africa.
The Hattie Carthan community gardeners will serve homemade dishes – much of the greens and salads are grown in the garden. Guests can also enjoy southern BBQ, live blues music, live farm animals, and more.
Meat Plate $10 – 3 choices of meat, $8 – 2 choices of meat, $7 – vegetarian plate $7, homemade pies $2 per slice, sorrel and herbs drinks – $2, herbal drinks and fresh fruit smoothies – $3, roast corn – $2, sage sausages – $2, chicken foot Souse – $3 bowl
Questions: [email protected]
Youth Farm CSA Shares Available
Fresh, seasonal. affordable produce is available through the Youth Farm CSA program.
Sign up for the 2016 season and receive a bag of farm fresh vegetables each week, June 13th through October 26th . Flower shares are also available from June 20th through October 12th!
Choose from one of 3 Pick up Locations:
Shambhala Yoga and Dance, Mondays 5 pm to 8 pm at 367 St Marks Ave
The Youth Farm, Wednesdays 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm at 600 Kingston Avenue
61 Local (flower shares only), Fridays 5 pm to 8 pm at 61 Bergen St
Click HERE for more info – and be sure to apply by June 1st.
34 Community Gardens on HPD Land to be Preserved, 7 Gardens to be Lost
At a meeting on Wednesday December 30, 2015 with community gardeners and greening groups (including Green Guerillas), City representatives announced a final decision made by the Mayor to determine the fates of community gardens on HPD land.
HPD will transfer 34 community gardens to the Parks Department to be preserved, while 9 community gardens sites will be displaced by affordable housing developments – including 7 active community gardens.
It is good news for NYC’s community gardening movement that 34 community gardens will be preserved, but devastating for the gardeners and community members who will lose 7 precious green spaces and outdoor community centers. The City has promised to find alternate sites for community gardeners – but it remains to be seen how large or how viable these alternate sites will be.
News coverage can be found HERE