Saturday, October 22nd End of Season Celebration, Carrie McCracken Community Garden, Seeds to Soil

This Saturday, October 22nd from 4-7p.m. join us to celebrate the end of the harvest season in your local community garden.

Creatively Green event by Seeds to Soil in the Carrie McCracken TRUCE Community Garden at West 117th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue.

Download and share the flyer announcement
Participate in envisioning plans for the future:
Bring a picture, drawing or writing of what it means to be creatively green in Harlem.
Have your portrait taken as part of a crowdsourced Inside Out Art Action project supporting urban environmental sustainability.
View images and interviews of your neighbors showcasing how both small and large gestures can have a positive impact on our neighborhood.
Share your vision of the sustainable future of our neighborhood.
Exchange ideas with your neighbors over some food.
Celebrate the first full year of the New York City Parks designation of the Carrie McCracken TRUCE Community Garden!

August harvest

ready for salad - thanks to generous gardeners who gave what they grew

classic eggplant beauty

as many tomatoes as you can hold

Angelo's tomato trophies

yellow pear tomatoes

fan made of collards, the ultimate garden accessory

broccolli delicacy

cucumber on the vine

West 118th Street Cultural Association Fair Report

collage of garden photos - thanks Eren

Thanks to all those that stopped by to see our table! Better yet, stop to see us in the garden.

TRUCE team

Michelle's activity table

The Harlem Harvest Festival October 9th

Help us represent our garden at this fun festival!

When: Saturday, October 9, 2010

Where: in the block of St. Nicholas between 116th and 117th Streets, including A. Philip Randolph Park.

Featuring:

• A Farmers Market featuring the best in local and regional produce at affordable prices for the community of Harlem.
• “Taste of Harlem” showcasing Harlem’s most celebrated restaurants and chefs.
• Performance stage.
• Culinary demonstrations.
• Children’s Pavilion will include games and fun activities.

The Fresh Food Summit

A Fresh Food Summit will simultaneously convene New York food thought leaders and Harlem residents and leaders to forge consensus on community goals and policy. The Summit will be conducted at various locations in the neighborhood of the festival and will consist of panel discussions, workshops, film screenings and seminars.

http://harlemharvestfestival.org/

GreenThumb Announces 2010 Harvest Competition in Brooklyn

All NYC gardeners are invited to attend and enter the competition!

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2010
11 A.M. – 5 P.M.
THE INVISIBLE DOG ART CENTER
51 BERGEN STREET, BROOKLYN, NY

The fair is a wild new take on the traditional County Fair, a day-long celebration of art and food grown in Brooklyn! Festivities engage all the senses: hear live music performed by local Bang on a Can marching band Asphalt Orchestra; taste delicacies prepared by local chefs inspired by ingredients from Brooklyn farms; view specially commissioned work exploring the culture of agriculture by local artists; get a feel for materials needed to produce your own food in workshops by Brooklyn Food Coalition; participate in a Blue Ribbon Competition hosted by GreenThumb; and browse a marketplace with some of Brooklyn’s small-batch artisanal food purveyors curated by Greenpoint Food Market. Cap it off with The Food Experiments’ live cooking competition, Brooklyn Roots, featuring savory samples and refreshing drinks from Brooklyn Brewery, Six Points Brewery, Red Hook Wines, Brooklyn Oenology, Kings County Distillery and others.

This event is part of Crossing the Line, the fall festival of the French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF).

For rules and categories on this years Harvest competition go to http://www.greenthumbnyc.org/news.html?news_id=91

For more details on the Farm City Fair go to http://www.fiaf.org/crossingtheline/2010/2010-09-ctl-farmcity-fair.shtml

The Invisible Dog Art Center
51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY
Between Boerum Place and Smith Street
Train: F, G to Bergen St; A,C to Hoyt-Schermerhorn
Bus: B61, B63 to Atlantic Ave and Boerum Place

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Cool (weather) crops

chill broccoli and greens

mums and lettuce

sunflower going to seed

young pumpkin

The season is winding down, put the garden is still productive