The Phoenix Community Garden is a vibrant community garden in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn. A shattering 28.4% of the community lives below the NYC.gov poverty measure. Our neighborhood is a prime example of food apartheid, with no ready access to fresh and healthy fruits and vegetables.

We empower neighborhood residents to both grow their own vegetables and  to buy at our weekly farm stand. We ask your support to keep the vegetables growing in the heat of summer when watering the plants on thousands of feet of land using a fire hydrant across the street and watering cans becomes unsustainable.

We already have the largest rain water harvesting system in New York City, but the tanks don't emit enough water pressure to reach much more than five feet away — a drip irrigation system with pumps powered by the sun is the answer! Drip irrigation systems have many other benefits: water is applied directly to the root zone, minimizing evaporation, saturation is controlled, minimizing nutrient loss through leaching, and weed growth is lessened.