Wyckoff Community Garden & Farmer's Market

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Volunteer Day this Sunday! Plus Composting Workshop 12-4pm

Please join us, this Sunday for a fun work day in the Wyckoff Community Demonstration Garden. The Volunteer day will kick off with a workshop on composting with Just Food’s trainer Eric Thomann from Backyard Garden/TwigCraft. We will then focus on using what we have learned to fix up our compost system and build some new garden beds.

Workdays are kid friendly. RSVP is suggested but not necessary. Bring clothes that can get dirty, a water bottle and gloves if you have them. Also please bring a bag to take home some garden fresh produce!

Please email Farm@WyckoffAssociation.org, or call 718-629-5400, for more information.

Please note that heavy rain will cancel this event.

Directions: take the #2 or 5 train to Newkirk Ave., B8 bus to Ralph, then walk one block south Or take the A/C or #3/4 train to Utica Ave., B46 bus to Clarendon, then walk 8 blocks east

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

see whats growing!

Monday, May 21, 2007

Upcoming Volunteer Garden Work Days Sunday June 3rd & 17th

looking to volunteer?
Please join us at one of our upcoming workdays. Workdays are kid friendly. RSVP is suggested but not necessary. Bring clothes that can get dirty, a water bottle and gloves if you have them.

Sunday, June 3, 12-4pm
Garden Workday: Garden Design and Maintenance
Please join us for a fun and educational workday in our Community Demonstration Garden. Learn how different garden designs facilitate different gardening uses and goals, as well as basic organic maintenance.

Sunday, June 17, 12-4pm
Garden Workday: Composting for healthy soil.
Please join us for a fun and educational workday in our Community Demonstration Garden. Learn about the base of a healthy garden, healthy and fertile soil. Lean about composting basics and different systems.

Summer Garden Workshop Series

back by popular demand...
Please join us every Sunday at the Wyckoff Farmers Market, for a fun, educational hands-on garden based workshop. All Workshops are from 1-3pm and are FREE!
June 24th: Cooking Fresh & Container Planting
July 1st: Garden Workshop: Cooking Fresh
July 8th: Food Preservation & Cooking Fresh
July 15th: Cooking Fresh
July 22nd: Medicinal Herbs
July 29th: Container Planting
August 5th: Cooking Fresh
August 12th: Food Preservation
August 19th: Cooking Fresh
August 26th: Organic Planting Techniques
September 2nd: Cooking Fresh
September 9th: Food Preservation
September 16th: Cooking Fresh
September 23rd: Medicinal Herbs
September 30th: Extending your growing season
October 7th: Cooking Fresh
October 14th: Food Preservation

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Thursday, March 8, 2007

Compost Festival March 25th

our first volunteer day of the season, we will be spreading compost and laying out our new garden! Please come and play in the dirt with us! Call 718-629-5400 for more information

Thursday, February 8, 2007

looking for a fun summer job?

how about a job right down the street, learning how to run a buisness and working outside?

Internships Available at the Wyckoff Farm...
YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS PROGRAM

QUALIFICATIONS
Local high school student (9th, 10th & 11th grade) living in reasonable proximity to the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum. Dependable, hard-working, able to do physical labor, and willing to get dirty. Able to work after school & Sundays throughout the summer.

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Gardening: Assist the Wyckoff Farm Director in all aspects of planting, maintaining, and harvesting the market garden. Involves physical labor working outside.

•Marketing: Help staff run and promote the weekly farmer's market held on site every Sunday from June to October.

•Entrepreneurship: Learn both gardening and entrepreneur skills with hands-on education. Develop your own business. Create, sell and market a garden based value-added product!

•Community Service: Contribute to this vital program, providing fresh produce and education to the local community.

LOOKS GOOD FOR COLLEGE APPLICATIONS!
starting at $7.15/hr, plus product bonus!

HOW TO APPLY
Call the Wyckoff Farm, (718) 629-5400 and ask for Lizzie
or email farm@wyckoffassociation.org to set up an interview

Past Programs!

Community Demonstration Garden
A center for historical and modern day horticultural education, with an emphasis on sustainable and organic production techniques. We grow over 36 types of vegetables, 8 berries and 15 herbs in our plus a variety of historical and heirloom herbs and vegetables in our Kitchen Garden. The gardens beautify M Fidler Wyckoff House Park and neighborhood, serves as a model for successful urban agriculture, produce food to be sold at the Market and brings to life the agrarian history of the site.

The Wyckoff Farmers Market
Provides a site for the sale and purchase of local healthy foods as well as a place for the community to meet for education, entertainment and leisure. The Market supplies fresh healthy foods to the public at affordable prices, as well as through the use of WIC Project Fresh coupons and EBT, and provides a point of sale for our Youth Internship Program products.

Youth Entrepreneurship Program
Teaches youth about entrepreneurship, community leadership and sustainable agriculture through experiential learning. The Youth learn business planning and development through creating their own garden-based business and working at the Market.

Free Garden Workshops & Events
A series of free garden education events throughout the growing season, including workshops on cooking, composting, medicinal herbs, and natural pest control. The workshops and Events are free fun and educational activities every Sunday at the Market.
Please come visit the the park and gardens!

Want to Help Out?

Please do! We love volunteers and have lots of great opportunities to get involved! We are looking for people to help out with gardening and grounds keeping, if you love getting dirty, hanging out in parks, growing delicious food or awesome people then give us a call! We are also looking for help with outreach and event planning, or if you have an idea of something you would like to do at the park, that would be great too!

Please call Lizzie, 718-629-5400 or email Farm@wyckoffassociation.org

Past Events:

HOLIDAY CANDLELIGHT TOURS

Saturday, December 16, 2006
4-5 PM Reservations required.

Experience New York’s oldest house in candlelight and learn about traditional Dutch-American holiday decorations and customs. Warm up with hot cider and cookies at the end of the tour.

Sunday, June 3, 12-4pm
Garden Workday: Garden Design and Maintenance
Please join us for a fun and educational workday in our Community Demonstration Garden.
Learn how different garden designs facilitate different gardening uses and goals, as well as basic organic maintenance.

Sunday, June 17, 12-4pm
Garden Workday: Composting for healthy soil.
Please join us for a fun and educational workday in our Community Demonstration Garden.
Learn about the base of a healthy garden, healthy and fertile soil. Lean about composting basics and different systems.

Thursday, June 21, 2007 5-7 PM
Summer Thursday evening hours fireside feasts
Join historical interpreter, Carolina Capehart for an evening of fireside cooking, early 1800s-style. Enjoy a fun evening of hands-on historic foodways, including preparation, cooking, and eating! The evening’s menu will be standard fare of cornbread and butter featuring Wyckoff family recipes.

Sunday, June 24, 2007 1-3PM
Farmer’s Market Opening Celebration!
& Garden Workshop: Cooking Fresh & Container Planting
Fresh, local, healthy foods for sale in the M Fidler Wyckoff Park, with rotating workshops and demonstrations on gardening topics. Join us for a cooking demonstration on cooking with fresh seasonal vegetables. Free workshop on easy container planting.

Tuesday Volunteer Days

Come volunteer in our community demonstration garden, every other Tuesday from 10am-2pm with our Youth Entrepreneurs. (7/3, 7/17, 7/31, 8/14, 8/28). We need help weeding, planting mulching and harvesting all summer long and into the fall.

Thursday Workshop & Volunteer Days

Please join us for a quick hands on lesson on organic gardening techniques, and then apply what you’ve learned in our garden. Thursday evenings from 4-7pm June 24^th, July 26^th and August 28^th.