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Join us for Earth Day Celebration on April 25th at Prospect Farm!

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Neighbors, friends and Prospect Farm members!

Please join us for an Earth Day celebration on Saturday, April 25th  between 11 AM & 3 PM. Activities will include gardening, composting demos, children’s activities, tours, music and food. The event will take place rain or shine (fingers crossed for shine!). Come out to celebrate Mother Nature, the arrival of spring, community and local food production in Brooklyn!

Prospect Farm is located at 1194 Prospect Avenue (adjacent to the Seeley Street bridge) in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn.

 

 

January 20 Launch of Food Matters Film & Discussion Series

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FOOD MATTERS: A monthly film and discussion series

Hosted by: Prospect Farm and the Brooklyn Commune

Film: The Power Of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

When: Monday, January 20, 6:30 PM

Where: Brooklyn Commune, 601 Greenwood Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11218

This is a free event.  All are welcome.
Producing food in our industrial civilization consumes enormous amounts of fossil fuel energy. How will our food system be affected by oil depletion?  This is a compelling documentary about the years when fossil-fueled food production in Cuba was devastated by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the massive decline in Cuba’s available oil. Learn how Cuba successfully transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system dependent on the finite resource of oil, to one using organic, renewable methods of farming and local, cooperative urban gardens. It is our future.
Guests:
Tom Angotti, Professor of Urban Studies, CUNY; Founder, Prospect Farm
Kady Ferguson, Executive Director, Brooklyn Food Coalition

DOWNLOAD THE EVENT FLYER HERE TO SHARE IT WITH YOUR FRIENDS!

Prospect Farm is a community garden with membership open to all. We improve and farm the land, while sustaining ties with local residents, businesses and organizations. We invite you to join us in our monthly Food Matters film and discussion series to share ideas, concerns, and inspiration.
Prospect Farm: 1194 Prospect Avenue between Seeley and Vanderbilt Streets in Windsor Terrace.
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Prospect Farm Annual Meetup and Celebration – Sunday, Feb. 3

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Sunday FEBRUARY 3, 4-7 PM
1511 10th Avenue, Brooklyn (Knights of Columbus Hall)
F/G Train to 15 St. – Prospect Park

Inviting everyone who has helped out and who is interested in getting involved to celebrate our third birthday, meet with the farmers, have good food and fun! Special guest Nancy Romer of the Brooklyn Food Coalition will speak. Prospect Farmers will report on the 2012 season and share plans for 2013.

All are welcome: members (past, present and future), volunteers, and neighbors. Please RSVP to prospectfarmbk@gmail.com

Sandy and dirty

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With Hurricane Sandy on its way, this weekend farm members came out to prepare for high winds and heavy rains. Fortunately, at this time of the year the growing season is pretty much over, so we don’t have to worry to much about damage to our crops. We’ve secured buckets and other composting supplies that might get carried away by a powerful gust, and our tools and supplies are snug and safe in the lovely shed we built last winter.

Our biggest concern was related to our fruit tree prep project, which has involved clearing a large area of the upper hill on the farm and creating terraces reinforced with walls made from rocks and rubble conveniently located on the land.

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After finishing up some of the terracing, we mixed in compost to prep the soil for the trees and covered the ground with burlap coffee bags secured with rocks. This should help keep the rain from washing loose soil away and onto our lower beds.

 

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Fall projects and volunteer opportunities

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We’ve had a productive growing season at Prospect Farm and enjoyed a wonderful variety of fresh foods (exact harvest amounts are coming soon). Growing is winding down, but the fall is a great time for non-growing projects, and we need you to help!

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Hard at work in the herb bed this summer

Our big project for the next few weeks is planting six new fruit trees. We’re excited to be getting a donation from MillionTreesNYC of two plum trees, two apricot trees, and two apple trees. The trees will be delivered in November, so in October we need to clear and prepare places for them.

We welcome volunteers to come help us out with fruit tree prep and planting (and any other farm tasks that need to be done) on the following dates:

Sunday, October 7, 12-3pm
Sunday, October 28, 12-3pm
Saturday, November, 10 1-5pm

Once the fruit tree project is done, we hope to start building a covered platform where we can hold gatherings. Stay tuned for more info and volunteer opportunities!