Flatbush Daffodil Project this weekend!
Join Sustainable Flatbush and your fellow urban gardeners to beautify neighborhood tree beds by planting daffodil bulbs! Photo by Flatbush Gardener The Daffodil Project was originally created to commemorate September 11th; a Dutch bulb grower donates 500,000 bulbs each year to NYC community groups who plant them in neighborhoods all over the five boroughs. This year,

Urban Farmer Novella Carpenter reads at Vox Pop
Tales of Squatting, Dumpster Diving, and other Urban Farming Pursuits: A Night with Novella Carpenter Novella Carpenter raises pigs, rabbits, chickens, turkeys, and goats on squatted land in downtown Oakland. Her hilarious memoir, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, tells the real story of what it takes to grow your own food in a city. Copies of the book will be available for sale.

Flatbush Daffodil Project on 11/14 and 11/15 only
Flatbush Daffodil Project will take place on Saturday November 14th and Sunday November 15th only. The November 7th and 8th planting dates have been cancelled. Meeting place and planting locations TBA. Please stay tuned, and please join us for Leaf Composting this Sunday November 8th!

Leaf Composting this Sunday November 8th!
This month Flatbush residents will have two local opportunities to keep their autumn leaves out of the landfill! Sustainable Flatbush is proud to be part of Project LeafDrop: “a volunteer-run, neighborhood-based coalition of gardeners and greening partners who are harvesting residential leaves for compost this fall.” The Flatbush CommUNITY Garden, a project of our Urban Gardens and Farms Initiative, will hold leaf collections on Sunday November 8th and Saturday November 21st from 11am til

September 2009: Mark’s report
When I decided to intern with a non-profit organization I googled, “local sustainable brooklyn,”  and that big wide web introduced me to Sustainable Flatbush. I had already searched a number of groups whose websites seemed too impersonal, too big, too far, or too bureaucratic. Then this delightfully designed web-page revealed itself with an unmistakably local and personal character. Digging into the links, Sustainable Flatbush impressed me with its involvement in such varied activities. I had considered interning with a solar power organization, or applying to Transportation Alternatives (fat chance?), but their aims are quite specialized, and though fascinating, would only provide