Come learn how to steward our local street trees with 61 Franklin St. Community Garden! This is a family friendly event. We’ll be focusing on street trees along Oak St. Refreshments to follow in the garden.

Come by 61 Franklin Street Garden for a self care Sunday. We will be offering reiki, sound healing, tarot readings and more.

Asking $15 for sessions.

Join Herbalist Maya at 61 Franklin Street Garden to create healing botanical waters according to what is happening in the cosmos.

In this workshop we will be learning about distillation, attuning to plants, and how to use botanical waters.

Please bring a clean and sterile bottle (clean with alcohol) if you would like to take some of the healing water home.

Asking $25 for non-members of the garden.

Garden members attend for free.

Join 61 Franklin St. Community Garden for a workshop with Talking Trash experts Caroline Bauer and Alan Minor formerly of Curb Your Litter that will look at issues around NYC's trash system and ways individually and collectively people can reduce waste in their lives. What’s the zero waste plan and how can we take part in source reduction? Come find answers in the cozy setting of Diamond Bar!

Location: Diamond Bar, 43 Franklin St, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Free and open to the public!

Please rsvp to gpcitizensclub@gmail.com.

This workshop is made possible by a grant from the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund. 

Please join us for a special Bundle Dyeing Workshop in the garden on Saturday, October 13th from 3 - 5:30, taught by textile artist Natalie Stopka. 

Space is limited, registration is required! Cost is $10 per person and will cover the silk and other materials used at this workshop.  

To register: Please email gpcitizensclub@gmail.com, then we will be in touch to collect the $10 supply fee and confirm your participation. 

About Bundle Dying
Join visiting artist Natalie Stopka to create botanical works of art featuring common garden flowers and herbs.  We’ll use the petals, leaves, and roots of local plants to create bundle dyed patterns on silk.  Our exploration of this eco-printing technique will reveal the wealth of color hidden in common dye plants such as coreopsis, marigold, and hollyhock through a simple and ecologically friendly process!

About the Artist
Natalie Stopka is a New York based artist focused on creative processes rooted in the materials and forces of the natural world. She uses diverse textile techniques to this end, drawing on the shared heritage of craft that has historically allowed us artistic access to nature. The meticulous, layered processes of natural dyeing, pigment extraction, marbling, and surface manipulation allow each artwork to be materially rooted in a particular space and time, with a big role for serendipitous chance and a continually evolving vocabulary of texture and pattern. 

This workshop is made possible by a grant from the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund. 

Join the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund (GCEF) and the McGolrick Park Neighborhood Alliance (MPNA) for the 3rd annual OpenHouseGCEF. OpenHouseGCEF will celebrate McGolrick Park and feature many of the exciting projects GCEF is funding to make our community a healthier, safer and “greener” place to live.

Come by the central Plaza of Mcgolrick Park for Fun and Games!

All Day Activities: enjoy live music • Plant daffodil bulbs • Make crafts • Touch some Newtown creek creatures • dissect an owl pellet • Make applesauce by peddling a bike • Learn how to do home garden soil testing... and much more!

The fourth and final film in our series will be THE DEVIL WE KNOW

A clear-eyed examination of the DuPont Company's decades-long poisoning of one town in West Virginia. 

Introduction by Mike Schade of Mind the Store, and the NuHart Superfund Site

Please arrive at 8pm for the movie showing at 8:30pm. The Java street garden showing will be on August 24th. 

The third film in the garden will be NATHAN KENSINGER FILMS

Local photographer / filmmaker Nathan Kensinger will present a selection of his own short films about waterways around NYC

Please arrive at 8pm for the movie showing at 8:30pm.

The second film in the garden will be THE IRON TRIANGLE

A timely and heartbreaking examination of redevelopment and gentrification  in Willet's Point, Queens, and the battle to hold the city accountable for it's promises

Filmmaker will be in Attendance

Introduction by Donovan Finn, Jackson Heights Green Alliance & SUNY Stonybrook

Please arrive at 8pm for the movie showing at 8:30pm. The Java street garden showing will be on July 26th. 

Join Greening Greenpoint for a workshop at 61 Franklin St. Garden led by professional Botanical Artist Wendy Hollender. Wendy will teach you the basics of Botanical Illustration and give you a better understanding of the importance of plants that you draw. The event is free, art materials are provided, and you can take home any botanical art that you make.

Please Register at greeninggreenpoint.org

No admission Fee

Art Materials Provided

The garden is hosting a film series this summer!

The first film is DIVIDE IN CONCORD on July 12th at 8pm. The movie will begin at 8:30pm. 

Divide in Concord shows a fresh and funny look at one 84 year old's fight to ban the sale of bottled water in the town of Concord, MA. 

Filmmaker will be in Attendance.

Introduction by Jennie Romer, of Plastic Bag Laws

A showing of the film will also take place at Java Street Garden on Friday July 13th.

Come join us in the garden for a reading of Pinocchio: The Origin Story and a watercolor workshop with Italian author-illustrator Alessandro Sanna! 

Born in 1975, Alessandro Sanna is considered one of Italy's leading contemporary illustrators. He has earned wide recognition across Europe as an illustrator and author, and his work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review and The New Yorker. He is a prolific and popular creator of illustrated books for children and readers of all ages and has received many awards and had many exhibitions. He lives and works in Mantua, Italy.

Books will be available for purchase at the event—stick around to get yours signed & personalized by the author!

Hosted by Enchanted Lion Books and The 61 Franklin Street Garden 

Join us in the garden for a special story time and "still life" workshop with Author-Illustrator Ohara Hale! 

Hosted by Enchanted Lion Books and the 61 Franklin Street Community Garden

Books will be available for purchase at the event—stick around to get yours signed & personalized by the author!

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We are excited to announce another year of kids classes in the garden! 

Classes will be held every Tuesday starting May 1st and run until June 19th. We will have two sets of classes for ages 4-5 from 3:30 - 4:15pm and ages 6-9 from 4:30 - 5:30pm. Teacher Alison Schuettinger will be leading our classes once again. 

About Our Teacher: 

Alison Schuettinger is a Sustainability Coach at P.S 31 with National Wildlife Federation and holds a position as Adjunct Faculty at Parsons The New School for Design. She is a passionate educator and facilitator experienced teaching all age ranges from PreK to University students and adult staff. Alison Schuettinger is driven by sustaining that which is free and wild, including ourselves. She received a Bachelors of Arts and Masters of Arts in Psychology and Post-Master’s Certificate in Sustainable Strategies from The New School.

Update: 

Classes are currently full. Thank you to everyone who signed up or were interested in the classes!

We are excited to have a table at the Greening Greenpoint's 2018 Street Tree Stewardship summit. We will be handing out bags with our very own compost starting around 2pm. 

The event is from 12:30-4:00pm with presentations by Partnerships for Parks, Citizens Committee, and NYC Parks Stewardship. 

Hope you can come stop by! 

We are delighted to partner with our neighbors Enchanted Lion Books and WORD bookstore to host children's author and illustrator Jacques Goldstyn for a special storytime in the garden featuring his lovely book BERTOLT. It was recently featured in an article on BrainPickings. 

Stay tuned for another storytime closer to Halloween!