MAKE MUSIC NEW YORK: Over 1,300 free concerts in a single day! Saturday, June 21, 2014
Karen Kandrac 2:50pm Jun 19 Including Community Gardens and Parks /Loisaida, East Village, Lower East Side
Check website for details - http://makemusicny.org/summer-schedule/
* Dias y Flores Garden, 520 E. 13th St
* Campos Garden, 628 E. 12th St
* Green Oasis Community Garden, E. 8th St btwn Ave C & D
* 6th & B Garden, 6th St and Ave B
* Orchard Alley Community Garden, 350 E. 4th St (C & D)
* Peach Tree Garden, 236 E. 2nd St btw Aves B & C
* Le Petit Versailles, 346 E. Houston St
* First Park, 49 E. 1st St
* Elizabeth Street Garden, 209 Elizabeth St
* Abe Lebewhol Park, 2nd Ave & 10th St.
* East River Park Bandshell, East River Park
* Sara D. Roosevelt Park, E. Houston St.
Make Music New York makemusicny.org
ROCKWELL COMMUNITY GARDEN
intersection of Flatbush Avenue, Lafayette Avenue, & Rockwell Place, Brooklyn NY 6:30 - 11:00pm Saturday, June 21
I'm pleased to invite you and members of your organization to the 2nd Annual Solstice Celebration at the Rockwell Place Community Garden. The celebration will take place from 6:30 to 11 p.m. in the Garden on the evening of the longest day of the year, this coming Saturday, June 21. Members of the Garden will host guests, friends, neighbors, supporters, and members of the public.
Rockwell Place Community Garden began more than 35 years ago in an abandoned triangular lot at the intersection of Flatbush Avenue, Lafayette Avenue, and Rockwell Place. It became a Parks garden in 1997 thanks to the efforts of the late Renata Kammerer, a member of the Parks Committee of Brooklyn Community Board 2. It was demolished in 2005 for an MTA subway ventilation security project; then restored in 2008 when the project was completed. The restored garden is now celebrating its sixth summer solstice, its second annual party.
Even a small garden (especially a small garden!) like ours rests on the support of many officials and experts, city-wide and local, as well as the arts and business community that surrounds us. We hope you will join our celebration of this year's forward-most tilt of our Earth toward our Sun. It's our way of saying Thank You.
Please forward this invitation to members of your organization and other friends of gardens and parks. All are welcome.
Sincerely,
Ron Janoff, coordinator, Rockwell Place Bear's Community Garden
CHILDREN'S MAGICAL GARDEN
129 Stanton Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Summer Solstice Celebration Saturday at 2:00pm
Join us to celebrate the summer solstice with sunflower seed bombs, mural painting, crafts, a Maypole dance and candle lit ceremony at dusk! Its our last chance to raise the funds we need at www.startsomegood.com/magicgarden so we will be selling home baked goods, food from Tiny's Giant Sandwich, CMG t-shirts and more.
The Hattie Carthan Herban Farm Summer Solstice Celebration is finally here again . It is truly the “noon time” of the year, the zenith of the summer season. Falling between the busy yet joyous planting season and the hectic and somewhat reflective harvest season, the Summer Solstice is a time to truly let loose and enjoy all the pleasures of life. The spirit of the season lies in true joy—a time to break loose and have lots of fun. You don’t really need a guide—just look around and use your senses. Check out the blanket of greenery and blossoms coating the Mother Earth, the bees and butterflies and animals frolicking and basking in the long, warm days and join us for a Green Solstice feast for the mind, body and Spirit.
LIVE APOTHECARY! LIVE ANIMALS! PERCUSSION CIRCLE! SMOOTHIE BIKE! HIGH VIBRATIONAL FOODS! HERBAL BREWS & ELIXIRS! CLAY CRAFT! LEATHER CRAFT! NATURE POETRY! FINDING YOUR INNER JOY SOLSTICE RITUAL! BOARD GAMES! HULA HOOPS!
Heark Ye! Heark Ye!
Thanks to each of you who continue to show up to help build up our market site, tend plants in the space and other tasks associated with operating a working farm and garden. We are still recruiting helpers for the 2014 season. Please join us this Saturday on the farm or simply drop by any of the two sites and ask to fill our volunteer form to register your talents and availability to help in the markets and farm during the 2014 market season.
Please stay tuned for the upcoming launch of The Hattie Carthan community farmers market online fundraising campaign. We are working feverishly with a few dedicated interns to find the help and support needed to upgrade and scale up the market space which was dug by our hands in 2009 and has been a safe, healthy space for our community to access fresh local food, and immerse in food and farm culture since that time. We believe the work that we do is important and necessary to grow health from the ground up.
Formal volunteer orientation and season work schedules will be decided at our volunteer orientation meeting on June 27th 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm at the Magnolia Tree and Earth Center - 677 Lafayette Avenue bet Marcy & Tompkins (PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDAR).
Our mockup market consisting of volunteers and youth interns will take place on July 11th 5pm to 7pm at the Hattie Carthan community market corner of Marcy and Clifton Place. This year, the Saturday and Sunday markets will continue to serve up beautiful & healthful produce, veggie juicing and fresh smoothies, offer youths led cooking demonstrations, communal dinners and Food For thought communal circles engaging community residents around food justice issues.
The Hattie Carthan Community Market officially opens for its fifth season Saturday July 12, 2014 and the Hattie Carthan After church market opens Sunday July 27th 2014. We are looking for urban agriculture interns to maintain the farm and market plots, to help with harvesting, cleaning and bundling produce every Friday throughout the season, for market outreach interns, documenters, event planners, fundraising assistants, readers for our children's garden story time program, chicken care interns and composters to manage the community compost drop off program in both markets.
We are also continuing our Urban Agriculture Youth Corps in which young people 14 -23 yrs old develop new green job skills and explore food systems /food justice issues. If you would like to be a part of the Hattie Carthan Community Market season experience and yearn for a connection to your food and place, please stop by the market or farm to fill up a volunteer contact form and attend our market volunteer orientation June 27th 2014.
No matter where you live, you're probably not far from a farmer market that supports a growing, vibrant and local food economy. Farmers markets require the support of the communities they serve and is in itself an act of self-reliance and determination to create for ourselves a local food system that takes into consideration our cultures and life experiences. The ripple effects of this seemingly simple once a week event are vast, despite how much the average shopper takes its existence for granted.
Our two community based markets increases access to fresh food for residents of Bedford Stuyvesant provide necessary seasonal food education ,create a diverse local food movement, provides opportunities for community residents to learn about food and farm justice issues,
enables youths of color to operate a community based-run enterprise in the communities where they live, are healthy thriving places which used to be community blights and reduces the carbon footprint of foods sold in the Bedford Stuyvesant community.
In fact all markets converted from abandoned lots by the will of community such as the Hattie Carthan community markets model functions with very little financial support and requires precious human energy, vigilance and work to be sustained. These markets just don't happen by themselves nor do any farmers' markets just happen by opening the gates and setting up tables on Saturday morning.
As the founder and project director of the markets, it is my privilege to invite you to either lend your time or expertise in the markets, help us raise funds to build up the infrastructure of our five year old market or simply make a decision to subscribe to our weekly basket program and shop in the weekly markets during the season.
For those that are less familiar with our work, the Hattie Carthan Community Farmers Markets are 2 volunteer based community revitalization projects in Central Brooklyn visioned by Yonnette Fleming, V.P. and 13 community gardeners Our big market operates behind the Hattie Carthan community garden on Saturdays 9am to 3pm July - November
Website The Hattie Carthan Community Market.
The Hattie Carthan herban farm and Sunday market (3 years old) operates Sundays 1pm to 6pm located at 49 Van Buren Place between Tompkins and Throop from July through November.http://yonnette.wix.com/hcherbanfarm
Questions? Please contact the Market Project Director Yonnette Fleming at hattiecarthangarden@yahoo.com or 212-594-2155 Ext 9.
We are grateful to our dedicated volunteers, basket members, market shoppers, city farms market network and the host of community partners that make our impact in this community possible.
See you in the farm or market soon!
