We’re excited to welcome another year of community garden, the Pharm’s 26th. Save the date for the following meeting dates.
Sunday, April 21 at 12 pm (Earth Day potluck BBQ)
Sunday, May 19 at 12 pm
Saturday, June 22 at 12 pm
Wednesday, July 17 at 6 pm (potluck)
Wednesday, August 14 at 6 pm (virtual)
Sunday, September 15 at 12 pm
Saturday, October 19 at 12 pm
Saturday, November 9 at 12 pm
Interested in joining the garden? Find out more information here.
We’re excited to announce this year’s leaf drop collection event. During this annual event, we hope to collect over 100 bags of leaves, which will be shredded to produce the critically important “browns” that are added to our composting process.
Divert your leaves from the landfill and into compost by dropping off your leaves at the garden from 12-2 on the following Sundays: 12-2pm on the following Sundays: November 3, 10, 17, 24 and December 1.
Please bag your leaves in clear plastic or brown paper bags. Please no twigs, branches or trash.
You are invited to Prospect Heights Community Farm and help us celebrate the end of another garden season with our annual family-friendly event. Bring your pumpkins to smash for our compost and enjoy a hot potato on Saturday, November 2 from 12 to 4 p.m.
Have you visited the garden recently to check out the new shed?
A lot of people worked really hard to make the shed project a reality this year: Shed committee, garden members, contractors and of course, the incredible team at Soulful Synergy!
Teamwork makes the shed dream work.
Thank you MG Traci for all the photos!
Our garden’s own Pollyanna is offering a free Intro to Mindfulness: Cultivating Inner Space class on from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 8 at the Pharm!
A little about Pollyanna:
Pollyanna is currently training to be an MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) teacher and this class is a prerequisite to her final teaching intensive this fall before she gets her official certification. Pollyanna said she thought it would be a fun way to give back to the community while enjoying our lovely green space.
About MBSR: MBSR is a clinical program (with Buddhist roots) that was first introduced in 1979 at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Stress Reduction Clinic by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. The program continues to be shared with thousands of people in clinics across the world as a way to supplement their health treatments with mindfulness techniques.
The class will be capped at 20 adults, so please RSVP to save your spot using this Google Form: https://forms.gle/X8ynweuk49t6zx5v7
The rebuild of the shed is tentatively scheduled for August 19 to 31 with Soulful Synergy!
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8/4 update: We want to share the news that our shed-build has been delayed. We apologize for any inconvenience and will update this post when we have a new timeline and impact on garden access for members and community.
The old shed has been emptied (big thank you to our garden members for all their hard work!) and its contents are awaiting a new home.
Due to the weather, Saturday’s general meeting will start earlier at 10 a.m. Please bring plenty of water, electrolytes — whatever you might need — to stay cool in the heat.
Prospect Heights Community Farm, in partnership with Make Music New York (MMNY), is hosting a Summer Solstice Celebration on Friday, June 21 — and you’re invited!
We’ll update this post with more information about performers, open mic sign-up and other logistics. We can’t wait to see you!
Featured Performers
Peace of Heart Choir is a volunteer New York City choir that came together shortly after 9/11. Their singers come from all five boroughs and perform 20 outreach concerts a year. They aim to promote healing, diversity, community bonding and mutual understanding through music. The choir performs free of charge for communities in need. They have a vast repertoire, including world music, standards, pop, Broadway, folk, etc. — they sing it all!
Peace of Heart Choir believes that the power of music is universal. The music they sing reflects the ethnic, racial and cultural backgrounds and traditions of their membership and audiences. They encourage audiences to sing along, and they also remain after their performances to bond with audience members. The conductor, Robert René Galván, is a published poet, who will also share his poetry.
Andrew Pichardo is a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter guitarist with bolero, bachata and bossa nova influences. His songs are sung in both English and Spanish. His guitar work is in the vein of Jobim and Gilberto.Andrew describes his lyrics as “sensual, flourished with imagery inspired by the plants and ambience of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden,” where he does most of his writing.
Jiwon Choi is a poet, preschool teacher and urban gardener. She is the author of One Daughter is Worth Ten Sons and I Used To Be Korean. Choi’s third poetry collection will be published by Spuyten Duyvil in 2024. She started her community garden’s first poetry reading series, Poets Read in the Garden, to support local writers. You can find out more about her at iusedtobekorean.com. She will be reading work from her new book of poems, A Temporary Dwelling.
Samantha White is a New York-based flutist who has performed throughout North America and Europe, including concerts at Lincoln Center, Centre Universitaire Méditerranéen, NPR’s “From the Top” and most recently, an orchestral residency with members of the Orchestra of the Americas and soloist Yo-Yo Ma. She lives at the Unruly Collective in Bushwick, developing as a musician and writer in a variety of musical styles.
This evening’s set is a mix of classical and original music inspired by nature and community. Being able to play music inspired by these things, while at a beautiful event and garden featuring them is such a special opportunity that Samantha cannot wait to share with everybody! As somebody new to the Brooklyn area and community, she can’t wait to learn more about what this community embodies and see what artistic inspiration this leads to.
Event Logistics
Open Mic Details
It’s time for Brooklyn’s best plant sale!
Come on out June 1-2 and June 8-9 and show your support for the Prospect Heights Community Farm during our annual plant sale.
Please join us during the first two weekends in June from 10am to 6pm for garden-grown plants and produce. Invite your friends and neighbors. Hope to see you there!
With a new garden season right around the corner, we’re pleased to see our composting efforts — and our longstanding partnership with the Park Slope Food Coop — showcased in the Linewaiters’ Gazette, a publication by the coop.
As written by Liora Fishman:
The Prospect Heights Community Farm (PHCF), on St. Marks Avenue between Vanderbilt and Underhill Avenues, stands as a testament to the power of collective environmental stewardship. The farm provides the opportunity to grow fresh produce, to share it with the local community via efforts like Victory Garden and a communal herb garden, and to teach neighbors about urban agriculture, plants and vegetables alike.
One of PHCF’s lesser-known green initiatives is a dynamic composting partnership with the Park Slope Food Coop, fostering a closed-loop system that transforms organic waste into nutrient-rich compost. In an interview with Compost Coordinator Brian Thompson, he explained how PHCF partners with the Coop to further the mission of sustainable urban living.
We’re proud of all the hard work from our composting teams who turn food scraps into fertilizer that enriches our soil. Check out the full article!