Bed-Stuy Community Farm Market Greenhouse
Help a Central Brooklyn community garden continue their important outreach by building a year-round greenhouse for the local community farmer's market.
Leader
Benjamin Shepherd
Location
51 Van Buren St Brooklyn, NY 11221
Impact areas
About the project
The Bedford-Stuyvesant (affectionately known as "Bed-Stuy") neighborhood is a center for Brooklyn's African-American population and also represents one of NYC's greatest at risk areas for diet related illnesses. Help us support urban, community supported agriculture (CSA) programs, and specifically the continued outreach efforts to local residents about the importance of eating and living healthy by helping fund the construction of a year-round greenhouse to extend the growing season within one of New York City's food deserts.
Also check out the progress at: http://www.hattiecarthancommunitymarket.com/#!__herban-farm
The Steps
There's been quite a lot of work going on at the project site!
The site has been cleared, debris has been hauled away, and herbs and vegetables have been planted. Now we need your support to construct the on-site greenhouse, tables and shelving to enable year-round gardening, please give what you can! Please help the schoolchildren, teens, adults and seniors in the Bed-Stuy community get a greenhouse!
Why we‘re doing it
Our project will help a prominent Central Brooklyn community garden to further their continued outreach by building a year-round greenhouse for growing herbs and plants for the local community.