Grow our Garden!
Help us grow and beautify Wyckoff-Fidler park including planting 3000 bulbs, 3 new raised garden bed, and a garden shed.
Leader
Danielle Hilkin
Location
5816 Clarendon Road Brooklyn, NY 11203
About the project
Fidler-Wyckoff Park houses New York City's treasured oldest house, the Wyckoff House Museum. We have been regrowing our garden in the past few years to include enough growing space to offer a monthly community market. We have already built eight new beds, but need even more space to meet the growing community demand for fresh produce. Help us build three more raised beds to help grow produce and serve as a teaching space for the 5500 school children who visit each year. With more growing space, we also need a place to store our tools and equipment. A new shed will help block out the pollution from the neighboring tire shop, and provide a safe place to store our garden tools. Lastly, we want to give this historic house some more curb appeal! As a way of celebrating its Dutch roots and sprucing up the park, we will plant 3000 new daffodil and tulip bulbs along our fence.
We have been so overwhelmed by your support and thank all of the amazin people who have contributed. We reached our initial goal with still a week to go so we are going to grow our project and build even more growing space. Even if we meet our goals, every additional contribution will go towards improving our garden and growing our capacity!
The Steps
October: Order bulbs and organize two bulb planting days with neighbors and volunteers
October 31: JOIN US for a volunteer bulb planting
February: Order shed kit, building supplies for beds and layout building plan.
March-April: Garden Bed building days with apprentices, neighbors and volunteers
April: Fill beds with soil and start planting!
May: Enjoy the bulbs blooming! Put native plants in shadier areas to retain soil, deter invasive plants, and serve as important polinators
Summer 2018: Bask in the fruits of our labor with more growing space and a place to store our tools. Share our bounty with our community!
Why we‘re doing it
This project grows our garden's capacity to keep doing what it does best: provide a beautiful green space in our neighborhood, grow fresh affodable produce, and offer environmental education. Our garden team has been working hard to keep the grounds beautiful, but they need a little extra support, space, and bulbs! Our last bulb planting was nearly ten years ago and it's time our fence got a colorful boost. We hope that the new plantings will attract even more visitors and the new beds will help us to grow more food for our community markets!