This Summer 2016 is our Summer of Youth!

Helping hands: Sorting columbine seeds
What happens when a group of Brooklyn gardeners gather for a Brooklyn gardens tour?!
Oh, the usual mayhem. Continue reading
Getting the skinny on how the Bear’s garden made it this far…
and how we’re going to keep on going.
As the Bear’s garden embarks on our seed saving project as a counterbalance to big agribusiness and their insistence on ‘owning’ seeds and outlawing seed saving, community gardens want to put in our two cents.
We started the process of certifying our five BANG gardens as wildlife habitats through the National Wildlife Federation this past summer.
Yes, bees count as wildlife!
Fall is a good time to collect and keep those seeds that you want to grow next season.
This year the Bear’s garden will embark on our first official seed saving project.