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Greening Flatbush: Garden Where You Are
Sustainable Flatbush presents our second annual Greening Flatbush event on Sunday, February 21st!
Greening Flatbush: Garden Where You Are is an afternoon of short demonstrations and hands-on workshops
Meeting to discuss B44 Bus Line improvements
Do you depend on the B44 Nostrand Avenue bus to get around Brooklyn? Do you wish you could? Come to the Department of Transportation’s Community Advisory Committee meeting on Tuesday December 8th!
Urban Farmer Novella Carpenter reads at Vox Pop
Tales of Squatting, Dumpster Diving, and other Urban Farming Pursuits: A Night with Novella Carpenter
Novella Carpenter raises pigs, rabbits, chickens, turkeys, and goats on squatted land in downtown Oakland. Her hilarious memoir, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, tells the real story of what it takes to grow your own food in a [...]
Flatbush Daffodil Project on 11/14 and 11/15 only
Flatbush Daffodil Project will take place on Saturday November 14th and Sunday November 15th only. The November 7th and 8th planting dates have been cancelled.
Meeting place and planting locations TBA. Please stay tuned, and please join us for Leaf Composting this Sunday November 8th!
Leaf Composting this Sunday November 8th!
This month Flatbush residents will have two local opportunities to keep their autumn leaves out of the landfill!
Introducing Sharifa!
Sharifa Murray, a graduate student at Brooklyn College in the Health and Nutrition Department is working on her Master’s in Public Health. During the fall 2009 semester she is currently interning with Sustainable Flatbush.
She received her undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Studio Art at SUNY Stony Brook. While attending Stony Brook she became interested in [...]
Keep leaf composting alive in Brooklyn!
This Saturday, October 3rd, join with the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and local gardeners to take the initiative on establishing a community-led leaf composting project!
Meet Mark, our new intern!
Mark Miretsky, an undergraduate senior at New York University in the Environmental Studies Program, is interning with Sustainable Flatbush for the fall 2009 semester.
While attending high school in San Francisco, where he was an active volunteer with the Parks and Recreation Department and its partner organization the California Native Plant Society, Mark’s interest in urban [...]
Slow Food potlucks in Flatbush this weekend!
Two Slow Food-themed potlucks will be held right here in the neighborhood this weekend: on Sunday September 6th at the Campus Road Garden, and Monday September 7th at P.S. 217.
Flatbush Supper Club on July 19th
The next Flatbush Supper Club will be on Sunday July 19th from 2-5pm at the Campus Road Community Garden, on the Brooklyn College campus.
