Prospect Farm and Sustainable Flatbush are proud to present Brooklyn Dirt: Monthly Talks on Urban Farming and Gardening.
Sycamore Bar and Flowershop
1118 Cortelyou Road
Brooklyn, NY, 11218
21 and over only
Directions: Q train to Cortelyou Road
Talk Two: Garden Design
With Speakers Tom Angotti with Jesse Alter (Hunter ) and Chris Kreussling (AKA Flatbush Gardener)
Talk One: Dirt and Soil
Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 7-9:30pm
With Speakers Jay Smith and Chris Kreussling (AKA Flatbush Gardener)
$5 suggested donation. Proceeds benefit Prospect Farm and the Urban Gardens and Farms Initiative of Sustainable Flatbush.
Tom Angotti and Jesse Alter led a group to Cuba in January that studied urban agriculture and organic farming. Tom teaches urban planning at Hunter College and helped start Prospect Farm in Brooklyn. Jesse is a graduate student at Hunter and works at the Center for Cuban Studies in New York.
Chris Kreussling (AKA Flatbush Gardener) is a garden coach with more than 30 years gardening experience in NYC. Chris is also the Director of the Urban Gardens and Farms initiative of Sustainable Flatbush and a community member of the Healthy Soils, Healthy Communities advisory board, a project of the Cornell Waste Management Institute, and earned a BBG Certificate in Horticulture, 2009.
Sustainable Flatbush brings neighbors together to mobilize, educate, and advocate for sustainable living in their Brooklyn neighborhood and beyond.
Prospect Farm is a community group in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn that is working together to grow food in a formerly vacant lot, with the mission toward creating a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Farm that can serve our community. Prospect Farm is the community leader for the Kensington/Windsor Terrace neighborhood group for the Brooklyn Food Coalition.
The ground-breaking at Prospect Farm, initially called Windsor Farm, on March 31, 2010.
The facade of the newly opened Sycamore Bar and Flowershop on September 13, 2008.
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Related Content
Brooklyn Dirt, 2/16, Sycamore Bar and Flower ShopWindsor Farm Breaks Ground, 2010-03-31
Sycamore, September 15, 2008
Links
Event on FacebookProspect Farm
Urban Gardens and Farms Initiative, Sustainable Flatbush
Sycamore Bar and Flowershop
2 comments:
I just wanted to say how much I enjoy your blog and what you do. I lived in Brooklyn for 9 year and although I now live in Staten Island I still keep up with your site.
I don't know how to put my finger on it but there's something extremely romantic about the idea of urban gardening and your passion for it keeps me coming back.
Keep up the great work.
Thanks, James!
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