21st Annual Pumpkin Smash!
Saturday, November 2nd from 12-4PM
Bring your jack o’lantern to smash! Eat baked potatoes and sweet potatoes! Make seed bombs! Listen to music! Have fun!
Free for the whole family!
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Ask a Master Gardener – October 26th 2:00-4:00
Have questions about your vegetable plants this past growing season?
Not sure what’s going on with your houseplant?
Ask our Master Gardeners for advice and insights to your planting questions!
Part 1 Tapestry Workshop for Beginners – Oct 5th
PHCF’s Fiber Arts Series continues with a two-part Tapestry Workshop for Beginners led by Sofia. The workshops are on October 5th from 11:30am-1:30pm and October 26th from Noon-2pm.
Sofia will demonstrate how to warp a simple frame loom, create “butterflies” for the weft, and use inspiration from natural forms in the garden to create a small tapestry. Participants will leave with a piece that they can continue working on at home or bring to the second workshop with any questions.
All materials will be provided and the workshops are free. Everyone is welcome, so please spread the word to friends and family.
Future workshops at PHCF include knitting, quilting, and crochet. We’re open to suggestions so if there’s something you’re interested in exploring, please let us know at contact@phcfarm.com
Family Social & Garden Open House (October 5th)
252-256 Saint Marks Ave., Brooklyn NY 11238
October 5, 2019, 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Who says the end of summer can’t be fun?
Join Prospect Heights Community Farm (PHCF) for an afternoon of creative DIY activities and snacks. All families, children, and neighbors alike are welcome to:
- Create Native Wildflower”Seed Bombs” to beautify backyards, empty lots, and tree wells
- Dig for bugs and other surprises in the “Kids Dig Box”
- Explore the garden
- Hot Dogs provided, enjoy lunch in the garden!
Generously sponsored by Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, BKLYN CLAY, and
Prospect Heights Community Farm
Tomato Tasting! September 8th @ 3PM
SO many choices which one to get? The red one ? The pink one? The one with the green and orange stripes?
Prospect Heights Community Farm at 252 St. Marks between Vanderbilt and Underill is offering the chance to sample a variety of the heirloom tomatoes from our Plant Sale at our Heirloom Tomato Tasting event this Sunday Sept. 8 at 3pm!
Poetry in the Garden – August 24th
Prospect Heights Community Farm for the second year will be hosting Poetry in the Garden, featuring local poets: Ann Author, Kim Brandon, Robert Gibbons, Jacqueline Johnson, and more!
Come and enjoy spoken word. There will be an opportunity to share your work during the 30 minutes of open mic.
Saturday August 24, 2019 from 5-7 pm
Light refreshments will be available
Compost Closed due to Extreme Heat – Sunday, July 21st
Prospect Heights Community Farm Compost is not accepting new contributions until Sunday, July 28th because it has been too hot for the volunteers to empty the regular bins. Please hold onto your food scraps and either bring them to the 7th Avenue Q station on Wednesday morning or to the Farmer’s Market on Grand Army Plaza on Saturday. Sorry for the inconvenience and stay cool!
Free DIY Mending Meetup – June 30
Details: June 30, 2019 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm 252 St Marks Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238, USA
Bring any mending projects and learn several techniques for mending and get help with your knit and woven projects. The goal is to encourage textile reuse!
If you don’t have a project to bring, feel free to use some of our scrap fabric and materials to learn/practice a mending technique.
This workshop is completely free!
Greenthumb Open Garden Day: DIY Native Wildflower Seed Bomb Workshop
Join us at Prospect Heights Community Farm for an Open Garden Day workshop!
We will be holding a DIY Native Wildflower Seed Bomb workshop on July 20th from 11 am – 3 pm. Seed bombs are a fun and easy way to disperse seeds and make your neighborhood look beautiful! This workshop is co-sponsored by Prospect Heights Community Farm (PHCF) and the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.
Learn more about NYC Greenthumb’s Open Garden Day program here.
Address: 252-256 Saint Marks Avenue, Brooklyn NY
Time & Date: July 20th – 11 AM through 3 PM
PHCF’s Annual Plant Sale!
This past Saturday marked the last day of this year’s edition of the annual Plant Sale! With the weather finally warming up (and staying dry enough), folks were looking for new plants to grow in their homes and yards. The garden was especially proud to offer self-propagated and heirloom varieties of tomatoes, herbs, and more in order to offer full transparency into the lineage of the plants we were offering.
A big thank you for everyone who made it out — members and neighbors alike! The Plant Sale is huge part of how the garden gets its funding for the year and is one of the biggest community events we have. Looking forward to 2020 already…
Here are some lovely photos from the event – if you have more to share, please reach out at contact@phcfarm.com
Rosemarie, our treasurer, at the ready despite the rainy weather!
Some of the varieties we had to offer during the sale
Getting creative with container options – this year, we let folks recycle pots!