This Summer 2016 is our Summer of Youth!
Helping hands: Sorting columbine seeds
Outreach
BANG of a Tour!
What happens when a group of Brooklyn gardeners gather for a Brooklyn gardens tour?!
It’s a gardening thing, you WOULD understand!
Oh, the usual mayhem. Continue reading
Putting the Words Down
Getting the skinny on how the Bear’s garden made it this far…
Talking to the Old Timers
and how we’re going to keep on going.
Resilience Deserves a Party
Getting Native
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.
Seed cleaning machine
How Wild Is Your Garden?
We started the process of certifying our five BANG gardens as wildlife habitats through the National Wildlife Federation this past summer.
Welcome Bee!
Yes, bees count as wildlife!
Project Seed Saver
Fall is a good time to collect and keep those seeds that you want to grow next season.
Seed saving is fun!
This year the Bear’s garden will embark on our first official seed saving project.
The Poop Stops Here!
Let’s just say that NYC’s August’s Dog Days are not always due to the heat…
Clean it up!
sometimes it’s on account of the dog poop all over the sidewalks!
PS 38: Children of the Lettuce
At the end of June, Ms. Scharf’s class is ready to harvest the crop the planted back in April: radishes, green beans & lettuce.
April 28th: In the beginning
Collaborations: Composting & Gardening with PS 38
In keeping with our mission to build community, the Pacific Street Brooklyn Bear’s is on our second year of collaborating with youth.
PS 38’s veggie plot
