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Q Gardens

A budding community garden in Flatbush, Brooklyn

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The harvesting process
The harvesting process
One of the garden kitties bid you welcome
One of the garden kitties bid you welcome
Hollyhock
Hollyhock
Garden kitty, protector of compost
Garden kitty, protector of compost
Kiddie Science member, watering plants
Kiddie Science member, watering plants
A tomato in the midst of growth
A tomato in the midst of growth
Artist Carlos Pinto, working on the Q Gardens mural
Artist Carlos Pinto, working on the Q Gardens mural
Our purple beans
Our purple beans
Herb workshop
Herb workshop
Calliope eggplant
Calliope eggplant
Bee and echinacea
Bee and echinacea
The northern end of the garden, as of July 2016
The northern end of the garden, as of July 2016
Resident Josie, with her harvest
Resident Josie, with her harvest
Red raspberries
Red raspberries
Kiddie Science during one of their urban garden sessions
Kiddie Science during one of their urban garden sessions

 

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Hours & Info

58 E 18th St, New York, 11226
For open hours, see our calendar at qgardens.org/calendar
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Join us for our spring plant swap/giveaway this Sunday, June 11th from 1-3pm! Bring a garden seedling or houseplant to swap, or come by to say hi and take home a new plant friend 🌿 We're giving away free bags of DSNY compost this Saturday, May 27 from 11am to 1pm! Up to 4 forty pound bags per person. Come get yours! 58 East 18th Street on the corner with Church Ave. Come learn the basics of making compost at Q Gardens and figure out how you can be an active part of the process! Meet Tuesday, May 23 from 6:30-7:30. We'll have some light refreshments too ;) Questions? Write to compostcoords4qg@googlegroups.com. The QG trumpet vine is blooming just in time for our first outdoor general meeting of 2023! 🌱 All are welcome to join us this Thursday at the garden 7-8:30pm. No prior knowledge or experience necessary 🌻 See you then! #communitygardening #solidarityeconomy #makingdecisionstogether Help bring more blooms to our neighborhood! Come help the Church & Flatbush Ave bids @churchavebid @flatbushavebid & Q Gardens put these beautiful flowers into street tree beds + help us get the Caton Migration Garden ready for some serious flower gardening! Let’s grow flowers and community for all. Sign up to volunteer this Sunday, March 26, 10-1! Link in bio. #communitybeautification #communitybuilding Thanks to everyone who came through on Sunday for our spring potluck! If you didn't make it and want to get involved, check out the "volunteering" tab at qgardens.org ! 🌻Lots of info on how to plug in! 🌱 #communitygardening #welcomespring Join us at the garden for a hands on workshop on starting plants from seed this Sunday @ 2pm! Everything you need to get started will be provided - all are welcome 🌱 Join us to celebrate the arrival of SPRING! And to meet new and returning Q Gardens volunteers, ask any questions you have, get excited to plug in this year... and share yummy food! 🌱🌻❤️ Please bring your own cup and utensils 🍴 Sunday, March 19th at 2-5pm at Q Gardens 🌻 (58 East 18th St, right behind Church Ave B/Q subway stop) All are welcome! 🔥Special shout-out to Q Gardener Stefanie for making this beautiful flyer!! 🔥 Great news, the Q Gardens bees are alive!! Since it was in the mid-50s today, we took a peek and QG bee alum, Sarah, brought her equipment to do an oxalic acid vapor treatment (on the hated, destructive #varroamites). The QG bee team circle continues to grow.. Sarah now has her own hives upstate and big congrats to bee team co-coordinator, Frank, who just got a scholarship from the @the_bee_conservancy to take a master beekeeping course! Onwards..! 🐝🔥 #qgardensbees #communitybeekeeping

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