In a band? Know a skill? Can tell jokes?

Do you want to perform or host a special event or workshop at the Wyckoff Farmer’s Market this summer? You should, cause it would be awesome! The Wyckoff Farmers Market provides a site for the sale and purchase of local healthy foods and a place for the community to meet for education, entertainment and leisure.

When: Any Sunday from 12-4 this summer,
from June 6th-October 14th.
Where: at our amazing park and garden,
5816 Clarendon rd. East Flatbush, Brooklyn
Who: You! Bands, storytellers, puppeteers,
herbalists, gardeners, comedians, you!
Interested, want to find out more: Farm@wyckoffassociation.org

The Market takes place at the M. Fidler-Wyckoff Park, which hold the Wyckoff Farm House, New York’s oldest structure, first designated Landmark, and a National Historic Landmark. Our market sells local produce grown in the Wyckoff Community Demonstration Garden as well as by several other local farmers. The market is staffed by youth participating in our Young Entrepreneur Program.

The mission of the Wyckoff Farm program is to cultivate a sustainable local food system and a vibrant healthy community by extending our museum educational programs into the Wyckoff M. Fiddler Park. We aim to make the Wyckoff M Fiddler Park into a dynamic community center demonstrating and fostering sustainable living. The Community Demonstration Garden brings to life the site's agrarian history and actively engages the local community in the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum through its weekly farmers market, youth internship program, and garden workshop series. We aim to offer long and short-term solutions to bettering our local food system by modeling successful urban agriculture and demonstration of the latest in sustainable, organic gardening technique.

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New Winter Youth Intern: Jensine Lagombra

We welcome our new winter youth intern, Jensine Lagombra to our staff! Jensine participated in our community youth intern program this past summer, helping to grow, harvest and sell organic produce on site, and wowed us with her charisma and mastery of horticultural skills. She is a junior at Nazareth High school, and quite the jock, playing almost every sport. Over the winter she will help us to maintain the gardens and house, as well as planning for the upcoming season farm program and activities. We are honored to have her!

Growing through the Winter!

New Cold Frame Debut! This year we a proud to debut our new cold frames which allow us to extend the season a little longer, and start a little earlier. Currently we are growing mixed salad greens and chard. The cold frames are made out of PVC pipes and paint tarps, a cheap and easy construction method, costing about $40 a frame and taking a couple hours to build. We plan on building more in the spring and jumping into the warm weather with a bang. Come and stop by to see them and taste our delicious greens.

Plus we are pretty sure the back in the day the Wyckoff Farm was covered in cold frames, growing produce to be sold at market through December.

New Farm Director

The Wyckoff Community Demonstration Garden welcomes our New Farm Director, Lizzie Ayer! Lizzie is coming to us from frosty Michigan, where she worked as the New Garden Development Coordinator for Growing Hope, a community gardening organization based in Ypsilanti, MI. This is her first time in the big city, and she is excited to work on making the garden a truly community space, with lots of fun and educational events. Please stop by to say hi, and tell her what you would like to see happen at the garden in the following year.

A little bit about her: she loves spending time playing in the dirt with kids and eating delicious fresh veggies. Outside of work she spends her time riding her bike, sewing, reading about alternative economics, and trying to make new friends.

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Wyckoff Farmer's Market!

Wyckoff Farmer's Market
Every Sunday from June-October

Fresh, organic vegetables and herbs grown in the Community Demonstration Garden are sold at a weekly farmers’ market on site. Additional fresh fruit and vegetables from a pair of upstate farmers are also sold at the market.

Look for the bright orange tents on Clarendon Road near Ralph Avenue. The market is operated by the Wyckoff Farmhouse Gardener, Market and Outreach Coordinator, and the Garden Interns. Produce varieties are available seasonally and all of the produce is harvested fresh and is local in origin.