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Create Your Own Mini Succulent Garden at the Terrarium Build-Along

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On Saturday the 14th of July, community gardens all over the five boroughs will be opening their gates to the public to celebrate 40 years of Green Thumb. Here at Prospect Heights Community Farm we’ll be hosting a free Terrarium Build-Along in the garden. In celebration of GreenThumb’s 40th Anniversary and PHCF’s 20th Anniversary, come join us to build your very own succulent terrarium! Materials and plants are provided, and the event is FREE.

The event is from 11am to 3pm on Saturday the 14th of July at 252-256 St Marks Ave.

Art in the Garden

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Join us at the Garden this Sunday, June 10th, from 1-3:30 pm for an afternoon of artistic activities. We’ll be offering free watercolor classes for children and showcasing a few local artists who work with mediums like jewelry and paints (the art will be family friendly)! We’ll be offering garden tours and there might even be live music! We welcome people of all ages from the area!

RSVP here.

Smash Pumpkins this Weekend

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It’s the annual Prospect Heights Community Farm Pumpkin Smash Potato Bake Bash this weekend and this year’s event will be our 19th one in succession!

Bring your left over jack o’ lanterns to smash in our compost. We’ll also have a grill going to bake potatoes as well as hot cider and other snacks. We’ll be in the garden all afternoon so stop by and hang out as we close out the garden season!

Saturday November the 4th 12-4pm (rain date November 5th)

Prospect Heights Community Farm252-256 St Marks Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Thank you to our City Council Members

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Ted De Barbieri and Brian Thompson recently joined fellow BANG member garden reps to deliver thank you baskets to City Council Members Brad Lander, Stephen Levin and Laurie Cumbo for their generous earmarking of funds for BANG gardens in 2016. Baskets included a bounty of items harvested from various member gardens. Each council member was thrilled to receive us. The meetings allowed us to express our thanks in person for their support of community gardening and BANG.

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The BANG team with Laurie Cumbo.

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With Stephen Levin.

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And with Brad Lander.

The garden under snow

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With the best part of a foot of snow over the last few weeks and the temperatures mostly staying below freezing, the garden has spent much of January under a bed of snow.

A blanket of white is actually a blessing for the plants that are covered by it. Snow consists mostly of air and, because it’s trapped by the crystals of ice, retains much of the heat released by the ground. Thus, the layer of snow acts as insulation and the temperature below it tends to stay fairly close to freezing even if it’s much colder in the air above. This can be of real benefit to plants that are only just hardy in our zone or first year perennials that can’t survive quite as much cold yet as when they mature.

Hopefully the next few mild days we have won’t melt the protective layer of snow too much as next weekend is forecast to have several nights of single digit cold!

Enjoy the photos below taken by Brian Thompson.

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We need your leaves!

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The 2014 Leaf Drop is under way. Only two more weekends left, so rake ’em up and bring ’em over!!

Leaves are a large part of our compost operations throughout the year and donating your leaves is a great way to support your local community garden. Happy Fall!!
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Spring in bloom

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It’s finally here! The wait this year has been a long one, but Spring is, at last, in full swing. Enjoy the photos below.

These first few are from a few weeks ago at dusk. The end of the day, but the beginning of the year.

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Plant sale this weekend

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Our annual plant sale will begin this weekend on Sunday the 4th of May and continue through Saturday and Sunday the 10th and 11th of May. Each day we’ll run from 10am to 6pm to give you lots of time to stop by. There will be a wide variety of vegetables, flowers, herbs and perennials available along with expert advice! Once again, timed to coincide with Mother’s day! Whether you’re in Prospect Heights or elsewhere in Brooklyn, we think you’ll find something worthy of stopping by!

Where: 252-256 Saint Marks Ave., Brooklyn, NY.
When: Sunday the 4th, Saturday the 10th and Sunday the 11th of May, 10am-6pm.

Check out the gallery below for some of the plants we had available last year including vegetables like tomatoes, basil, zucchini, oregano, rosemary, lettuce, peppers, brocolli and kale, perennials such as aquilegias, hollyhocks and creeping jenny as well as annual flowers like snap dragons, cosmos and marigolds.

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