A Workshop for the Community

With the support of neighbors and our volunteer civil engineer, we hope to finish building our shed with a new rain harvest roof that will collect water for the garden.

This new roof will also provide shelter for visitors to continue to enjoy FREE workshops from our garden organizers. A few of our garden leaders are Just Food trained to teach subjects including Urban Agriculture, Edible foods & weeds, Composting, Bee Keeping, Recycling, Reducing & Reusing, Natural Insect repellant & more.

Chenchita's Community Garden is a teaching community garden. Our visitors are introduced to the garden with a tour of what's growing and ways to volunteer or become a member. 

Our volunteer civil engineer, Jake, will purchase the building materials to install a rain harvesting roof. Volunteers will support his efforts over a weekend in November.

The new roof will ensure that workshops can be held even if there is rainy weather. We will continue to host free workshops all year long under the new shed roof, potentially creating a new job for a Harlem gardener.

Completing the shed will create storage to organize garden tools and other materials.

We will have a painting day with the community to beautify the shed and to make a more prominent welcome sign using donated paint.

East Harlem is often described as a food desert with lack of stores that provide affordable, fresh, organic produce. East Harlem has one of the highest rates of obesity and diabetes in the city. By building a workshop area, we empower each of our neighbors to have the knowledge of growing natural fresh foods and how caring for the environment can be mutually beneficial. By having a shed to organize the garden's tools and organizational materials, it is also our intention to bring back a farmer's market that accepts SNAP food benefits.