The Hattie Carthan garden garden,farm & Community Farmers Market are urban food justice projects located in bedford Stuyvesant.

The initial garden located at Lafayette and Marcy Avenue, was formed in 1991 as a place where humans can expand their knowledge of plants and grow fresh food in Brooklyn. The garden has been a public space that is multigenerational and multicultural for over two decades in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn. The garden is named after a prominent Brooklyn environmentalist who was instrumental in planting over 1,500 trees in Brooklyn. In the mid-90s the garden received preserved landmark status as a result of the community's organizing efforts and became an Operation Greenthumb Parks & Recreation site. The Hattie Carthan Garden is an important public space with its own legacy and history.

Within the last decade, the Hattie Carthan Community Garden has reinvented itself by combining the old fashioned community gardening approach with urban agriculture. The garden is equipped with a recently built children's learning garden, mushroom patches, new chicken coops, a three bin composting system and vermicomposting system. Our new hoop-houses allows gardeners to extend the growing season, grow food without chemicals, increase yield and educates children about growing food from seed. Livestock raised on the farm provides eggs to community residents, income for the farm as well as manure for the plants. Using manure and compost eliminates our dependence on chemical/synthetic fertilizers. Our advocacy and food justice programs help educate and empower youths and others working within the food system

Since 2009, the original and new market has distributed over forty thousand pounds of fresh, local food to community residents . Those residents were also able to attend dozens of healthy eating and food justice workshops in the marketplace where they delved into preparation methods, eating for health disparities, the seasonality of foods and understanding community health and food justice.

The small scale Urban Agriculture project seeks your support to continue doing the work of growing food and people in our community.

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