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The 2025 Summer Solstice Celebration!

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We are pleased to formally announce

The PHCFarm Summer Solstice Celebration 2025.

Date: Saturday June 21, 2-5 p.m 

The event will once again be hosted in partnership with Make Music New York. 

PLUS we welcome YOUR participation. See the flyer below for more details on how to sign up for the open mic.

Featured performers

Greg Hammontree

Trumpet player, composer, educator

Founding member, The Queen’s Cartoonists, an internationally-acclaimed, well-traveled band

Greg will perform solo electroacoustic pop-art pieces designed to be played in outdoor spaces.

Vivienne Aerts

Multi-disciplinary musician, artist, educator, psychologist.

Vivienne will be singing original compositions while playing a Loop pedal station. She and her husband also collaborate on a bean-to-bar chocolate project—a company that proactively empowers female cacao farmers of Virunga State Park in Congo. Sample chocolate nibs will be distributed.

Ishkara Heqwabti

Master Sound Healer and Mantra Singer.

Ishkara curates transformative soundbaths using voice, chants, crystal singing bowls, tuning forks and indigenous instruments. Her performance may include Circle Singing with which she engages and guides the audience toward inner harmony through the healing power of sound.

Plant Sale (extended!)

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More home grown plants for sale on Saturday and Sunday, June 7 and 8 ,12pm – 5pm

Support Prospect Heights Community Farm in its biggest fundraiser!

Spring Walkthrough

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Led by our Master Gardeners, a group of around 15 garden members walked through the garden to collectively put fresh eyes on what needs doing this garden season.  We identified some small projects and some big ones (like organizing the new shed and clearing the main garden paths).  It was a very uplifting way to start the season. 

2025 Garden Meeting Dates

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We’re close to ushering in our 27th season of community gardening at Prospect Heights Community Farm! We meet monthly at the garden from April to November (with one virtual meeting to escape the heat in August).

Please note the dates below.

Sunday, April 27 at 12 pm
Saturday, May 17 at 12 pm
Sunday, June 22 at 12 pm
Wednesday, July 16 at 6 pm (potluck)
Tuesday, August 12 at 6 pm (virtual)
Sunday, September 14 at 12 pm
Saturday, October 4 at 12 pm
Saturday, November 8 at 12 pm

Are you interested in joining the garden? You’ll need to attend a full meeting and orientation afterward, and pay dues. Find out more information here.

Pumpkin Smash in Photos

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Big thanks to garden members Laura B, Theresa N and Traci N for documenting our celebration!

2024 Leaf Drop

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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.

Pumpkin Smash Is Back

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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.

Meet the New Shed!

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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!

Intro to Mindfulness workshop

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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