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April 20, 2009

Community Garden Spotlight: Cedar Tree Garden

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Given the time of year, we thought this would be a great time to celebrate one of the most treasured resources in most neighborhoods--the community garden. These labors of love provide an oasis in areas that at some point were on hard enough times that no one wanted to do anything with the vacant lots that dotted them. Cheers to everyone who contributes time and money to sustaining them. Please send us a current photo and a few words about what makes your community garden special and we'll post it. We'll also map them so that when we're done we'll have a map with links to all the gardens in Brownstone Brooklyn. We'll kick things off with this shot of the Cedar Tree Garden. Flatbush Gardener has a great photo set on Flickr of the garden from last year. Can anyone tell us about the history of this space? GMAP




Posted by Brownstoner at 11:29 AM | Comments (6)
Categories: Bedford Stuyvesant, Community Garden

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Mr. Prince can. Someone should walk over and ask him about the history of the garden.

Posted by: serpentor at April 20, 2009 11:52 AM

FYI, I already started a Google Map last year for all of Brooklyn's Community Gardens. It's nowhere near complete. Let me know who else to add as a collaborator from Brownstoner. The link is http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=114058217796225095742.0004610118c59dc79ff9a&t=h&z=12

Posted by: Xris at April 20, 2009 2:32 PM

Hats off to the community gardens involved in the Fort Greene farmers' market composting project!

They're doing a great job and service to the community and the City!

Apparently, the group hauls off 1000 pounds of compostable scraps every Saturday!

Thank you!!!

Posted by: BrooklynGreene at April 20, 2009 2:37 PM

Thanks BrooklynGreene!

Posted by: serpentor at April 20, 2009 4:07 PM

Xris -- Great work. In the Slope, yiou are missing Garden of Union and Annie's Garden. I believe there are a ton of gardens in Brownsville, although a bunch were targeted for development a few years back.

Posted by: slopefarm at April 20, 2009 4:09 PM

There are many gardens missing from the map. I added GofU and Annie's.

Posted by: Xris at April 21, 2009 5:48 PM

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