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Hey friends and neighbors!
We’re excited to invite you to another Monthly Volunteer Gathering at Vox Pop Cafe with Sustainable Flatbush! (Our second one, yay!) We’re going to be talking a lot about our next big event of the spring, the Neighborhood Energy Forum on March 20th. We all want to learn about how to make [...]

Hey friends and neighbors!  Get excited for another Monthly Volunteer Gathering at Vox Pop Cafe with Sustainable Flatbush!

In my internship class the professor asked who wanted to do an environmental internship with Sustainable Flatbush and my hand shot up. After reading Sustainable Flatbush’s initiatives and looking through the vibrant website, I knew wanted to try to get an internship with this organization. So that night I went home and the first thing [...]

Join Sustainable Flatbush and your fellow urban gardeners to beautify neighborhood tree beds by planting daffodil bulbs!

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 [...]

The 33rd Annual Flatbush Frolic will be held this Sunday, September 13th, 2009. The Frolic is a free, open air street festival with live bands, food, merchandise, games for the kids, and arts and crafts vendors exhibiting their wares, on Cortelyou Road in the heart of Brooklyn. The emphasis is on local restaurants, musicians, businesses [...]

You’re invited!
Please join us for our new monthly gathering.
WHEN:
Tuesday, July 14, 2009, from 6:30-8:30 pm
WHERE:
Vox Pop Cafe
1022 Cortelyou Road (at Stratford)
Flatbush, Brooklyn
WHY:
Meet the people who make our projects happen, then become one!

Urban Gardens and Farms Orientation
- Learn about the upcoming projects and plans of Sustainable Flatbush
- Come share some of your own sustainable ideas!
- Connect [...]

Help us win a grant to build this Solar PowerBike for the Flatbush community!
Sustainable Flatbush has entered a proposal in National Geographic’s Green Effect environmental grant contest.

Sustainable Flatbush invites you to celebrate BikeBKLN by visualizing a future of Livable Streets!

The Cortelyou Greenmarket has been getting bigger and better every year; this season will be the longest yet.