Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Red Hook Harvest Festival- Saturday, October 20th!
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THE THIRD ANNUAL RED HOOK HARVEST FESTIVAL: A CELEBRATION OF YOUTH EMPOWERMENT, URBAN AGRICULTURE, & FOOD JUSTICE FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
SATURDAY OCTOBER 20TH 2007 10am – 5pm
Join several thousand New Yorkers, young and old as we gather together to educate, motivate, inspire and create a more sustainable future for Red Hook and all of New York.
Explore the Red Hook Community Farm, New York City’s largest urban agricultural project and take a tour of the facility led by a member of Added Value’s youth leadership team. Purchase fresh fruits and vegetables from the Farm, RonnyBrook Dairy, Red Jacket Orchard, and Wilklow Family Orchards
Enjoy great local, seasonal fair produced by some of the finest restaurants in the City including The Good Fork, Restaurant ICI, Tini, Baked, and Rice. Press New York State apples into fresh cider, check out the livestock, pick a pumpkin and enter into your art into the craving competition, or pickle some string beans with Classie Parker.
Explore the practicality of solar power, harvesting the wind, collecting rain water and making your own bio-fuel by learning from greening organizations such as: Tri-State Bio Diesel, The Cloud Institute, Community Wind, The Water Resources Group, Solar One, and the Brooklyn Greenway, Just Food.
Learn more about how together youth and adults are growing a more just food system from Brooklyn Greenbridge, and GreenThumb Cornell University Cooperative Extension, Food Systems Network NYC, and Heifer International.
Discover new things about Red Hook from Community Based Organizations working together to build a stronger, healthier, more equitable Community including: Added Value, the Red Hook Initiative, The Hook Productions, The Brooklyn Steppers, The Red Hook Public Library. Falcon Works, The Red Hook Play Group, The Red Hook Public Safety Corps.
Listen to the international sounds of music from BombaYo Afro-Puerto Rican Youth Project, La Troupe Zetwal (Haitian), Ahamed Alrodini/Songs and Rhythms from Yemen, Rebel Diaz (Youth Produced Hip Hop from the Bronx), Baba Isreal and Yako (Conscious Spoken Word), and the Copper Kettle Band (classic Blue Grass and Old Time).
“The Farm is an inspiring platform for community growth, local economic development and environmental sustainability. As an outdoor classroom for hundreds of New York City school children it is teaching a new generation of leaders about how to care for their minds, their bodies, and their community.” Ian Marvy, Executive Director Added Value.
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Directions to Red Hook Community Farm
By Public Transportation:
A/C or F:
• Take train to Jay Street Borough Hall
• Take the B61 going towards Red Hook
• Take the B61 to Van Brunt and Van Dyke Street
• Exit the bus and cross Van Brunt Street
• Walk up Van Dyke three blocks to the Farm
2/3, 4/5, M, N/R/W:
• Take train to Court Street/Borough Hall
• Exit at Court Street
• Walk South (away from Cadman Plaza) on Court, to Atlantic
• At the intersection of Atlantic and Court, in front of the pharmacy, catch the B61 going towards Red Hook
• Take the B61 to Van Brunt and Van Dyke Street
• Exit the bus and cross Van Brunt Street
• Walk up Van Dyke three blocks to the Farm
F/G:
• Take train to Smith and 9th Street
• Exit the station
• Transfer to the B77 (right in front of the station)
• Take the B77 to Van Dyke and Dwight street
• Take a left crossing Dwight Street and proceed up Van Dyke to Red Hook Community Farm (one block walk)
By Car:
BQE West:
• Take the HAMILTON AVE exit- EXIT 26
• Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto HAMILTON AVE
• Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto W 9TH ST.
• Turn LEFT onto COLUMBIA ST.
• The farm will be on your right after about 5 blocks
• Corner of SIGOURNEY & COLUMBIA ST
BQE East:
• Take the HAMILTON AVE exit- EXIT 26
• Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto HAMILTON AVE.
• Turn LEFT onto VAN BRUNT ST.
• Turn LEFT onto COMMERCE ST.
• Turn RIGHT onto COLUMBIA ST.
• End at Sigourney St & Columbia St
Brooklyn Bridge:
• Crossing from Manhattan position yourself in the right lane
• Take the Cadman Plaza/BQE exit
• Position yourself in the left lane
• Exit left onto Cadman Plaza (Cadman will become Court in a few blocks)
• Follow Court for 2 plus miles (through Atlantic Avenue)
• Continue on Court under the BQE
• Proceed to Bay Street (your first stop sign and third street)
• Right on Bay
• Follow Bay to Columbia
• Left on Columbia
• Red Hook Community Farm is on your right hand side
Court Street:
• Follow Court Street under the BQE
• Proceed to Bay Street (your first stop sign and third street)
• Right on Bay
• Follow Bay to Columbia
• Left on Columbia
• Red Hook Community Farm is on your right hand side
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Previous Announcements
October at the Red Hook Community Farm
Harvest Season at Added Value
Red Hook Farmers' Market 2007 Opening!
Summer on the Farm
June on the Farm
Arugula and Strawberry Blossoms at the Farm
April Showers bring May vegetables
The season is beginning and Added Value is hiring!...
Brooklyn's Bounty!
Gratitude, and a great Harvest Festival!
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