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Come to Compost for Brooklyn’s Annual Block Party!
Sunday, June 3rd, 11:00am – 5:00pm
Newkirk Avenue and East 8th St.
Come with your e-waste recycling and food scraps
Stay for the live music, workshops and baked treats
Leave with a free tree, bike bell, seeds, and raffle prizes!
- Recycle your E-waste from 10-4 with LES Ecology Center (FAQ)
- Dance to live music curated by Primary Records
- Go home with a free tree (via NYRP)
- Enter the famous raffle (donors below)
- Visit the book sale
- Get a free bike bell (from NYC DOT)
- Pick up free seeds
- Participate in a fixing session with the Fixers Collective
- Eat great food from the bake sale
- Check out the garden and the compost project
Workshops and Tables:
- Learn all about herbs from BUDS
- Learn about Brooklyn Neighbors Composting‘s exciting project in District 39
- Test your knowledge of fermentation and taste sauerkraut with Cantaloupe Alone
- Learn about beekeeping and urban gardening from Agrowculture
- Recycled jewelry with Rebutton Studios
- Western Queens Compost Initiative
- Community Carting and Composting
- Sims Recycling
- Farm at Wassaic
- 596 Acres
- Build it Green!NYC
- Urban Martial Arts
- Munjoy Metals
- and many more!
Many thanks to these organizations for donating to our raffle:
- Brooklyn Butcher Blocks
- Brooklyn Fencing Club
- Catskill Bagels
- Storey Publishing
- Castle Compost
- Qathra
- Purple Yam
- TB Ackerson Wine
- Salud
- Toy Space
- Top Cafe Tibet
- Storey Publishing
- Natural Frontier Market
- and more to come!
Street Gardening Workdays: Last one is Sunday, 6/10
Nature Journaling for Kids: Spring Series (ages 7-11)
Sunday, June 10, 2:30pm
Maria Newsom-Fahey will be leading this third and final nature journaling workshop of the spring, for kids aged 7 to 11 in the C4B garden. Get ready for a scavenger hunt, drawing, and other urban nature-discovery activities! RSVPs are helpful, but not required: info@compostforbrooklyn.org.
New CSA! Parkville Farmshare
A letter from Parkville Farmshare’s Caitlin Foley to C4B
