Many community gardens across Brooklyn, in partnership with the GreenBridge Community Garden Alliance of Brooklyn Botanic Garden, bk farmyards, Vokashi, and the Neighborhood Open Space Coalition will accept and compost residential leaves on six weekend dates this fall: Nov. 7-8, Nov. 14-15, and Nov 21-22 from 11am-1pm. (Note: Not all gardens will be able to collect all six days.)
Click here for a map and list of participating gardens.
Add Your Garden to the map if you’d like to accept and compost leaves from your community this year.
Participating gardens in Brooklyn as of 11/3:
Community Boerum Street Garden – Boerum btw Bushwick and White (East Williamsburg Industrial Park)
North Brooklyn Compost Project - McCarren Pk @ N12th (Williamsburg/Greenpoint)
Woodbine Block Association Garden – Woodbine St. btw Central and Evergreen (Bushwick)
Brooklyn Bears Carlton Avenue Community Garden – Carlton between Greene Ave. and Fulton St. (Ft. Greene)
Warren St. Marks Community Garden – St. Marks/Warren sts. between 4th and 5th ave (Park Slope)
David Foulke Memorial Garden – 250 Bergen btw Bond and Nevins (Boerum Hill)
Eagle Street Rooftop Farms – 44 Eagle St. @Franklin Ave (Greenpoint)
Spencer St. Community Garden – Spencer btw DeKalb and Willoughby (Bed-Stuy)
Red Shed Garden – Skillman @ Kingsland (Williamsburg)
6/15 Green – 6th Ave @15th St. (Park Slope)
Prospect Heights Community Farm – St. Marks Ave btw Vanderbilt and Underhill (Prospect Heights)
St. Marks Ave/ Prospect Heights Community Garden – St. Marks Ave btw Vanderbilt and Clermont (Prospect Heights)
Hart to Hart – Hart St. btw Marcy and Tomkins (Bed-Stuy)
Sunshine Community Garden – McKibben btw Graham and Manhattan (Williamsburg)
Wyckoff-Bond Garden – Southwest Corner of Wyckoff and Bond (Boerum Hill)
Flatbush CommUNITY Garden – Albemarle @ Buckingham Rd. (Ditmas Park)
Earth Matter Bushwick Composting Station – Linden @ Broadway (Bushwick)
East New York Farms! UCC Youth Garden – New Lots @ Schenck (East New York)