Brooklyn Grange

NYC Area Friends: you are cordially invited to our Open House & Happy Hour, next Thursday, November 7, 4:30-7pm, at our Sunset Park rooftop. Come see our roof farm and event space for yourself, while enjoying some delicious food, drinks, and music with a great group of peers. Details below. Hope to see you on the 7th! Please RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/eC4CDyyj

We are honored to be featured in the U.S. edition of WIRED Japan in their comprehensive issue on regenerative cities. To be highlighted as one of the world's best sustainable urban developments is a special recognition, for which we are deeply appreciative. It's a credit to the hard work and perseverance of our entire team! Read the full piece here: https://lnkd.in/eFEG3b-y

We were REAL honored and SIMPLY thrilled to be part of the dream team of best in class designers recruited by Real Simple magazine to collectively renovate and redesign a historic brownstone in Brooklyn for their REAL SIMPLE Home 2024. Our Design/Build team was tasked with turning the neglected backyard into a beautiful and useful space. We created multiple gathering areas through the addition of new landscaping-including a wide variety of of native species- along with various forms of hardscaping. To quote our own Travers Martin, lead landscape designer on the project: “As designers working within the dynamic context of New York City, we hope to seek harmony within the built environment which frames our installations, while simultaneously engaging the urbanites, animals and the natural systems that breathe life into any landscape.?Simply put, we’re big fans of birds, pollinators, people, food, parties, dancing and bouquets, and we hope to incubate all of these elements in a way that respects the climate, city code and the client’s budget.” photo by Kelly Marshall/styling by Sophia Pappas #RSHome2024

Did you know we routinely host team retreats, workshops and outings on our rooftop farms and in our event spaces? It's a fun, unique way to bring your colleagues together, get your hands dirty (if you want!) and stimulate creative thinking. But don't take our word, read what West Side Campaign Against Hunger said about their recent offsite with us: "What I can say about my time at Brooklyn Grange was that it was an amazing experience because I was able to learn about the way food grows and the important work your organization does every day. I picked tomatoes and hot peppers which was so cool but also hard work. Not only did I bond with my colleagues but gained a deeper appreciation for farmers and what they endure. It's also just a beautiful space on that rooftop with amazing views." - Ivanna, West Side Campaign Against Hunger Want to learn more? Read up here: https://lnkd.in/egDZFYRp

ON ANOTHER PANEL ABOUT CLIMATE, THEY ASK ME TO SELL THE FUTURE AND ALL I’VE GOT IS A LOVE POEM By Ayisha Siddiqa What if the future is soft and revolution is so kind that there is no end to us in sight. Whole cities breathe and bad luck is bested by a promise to the leaves. To withstand your own end is difficult. The future frolics about, promised to no one, as is her right. Rage against injustice makes the voice grow harsher yet. If the future leaves without us, the silence that will follow will be an unspeakable nothing. What if we convince her to stay? How rare and beautiful it is that we exist. What if we stun existence one more time? When I wake up, get out of bed, my seven year old cousin with her ruptured belly tags along. Then follows my grandmother, aunts, my other cousins and the violent shape of their drinking water. The earth remembers everything, our bodies are the color of the earth and we are nobodies. Been born from so many apocalypses, what's one more? Love is still the only revenge. It grows each time the earth is set on fire. But for what it’s worth, I’d do this again. Gamble on humanity one hundred times over Commit to life unto life, as the trees fall and take us with them. I’d follow love into extinction

OUR CSA WAS ON CBS! Did you catch us on CBS Saturday Morning? We were absolutely thrilled to share more about Harvest Share, our culturally specific CSA program that we proudly run at?our?Sunset Park?farm?in collaboration with 9 amazing community-based organizations.?Harvest Share's?mission?is?to explore how food and nutrition programs can promote healing within immigrant communities, and?we're honored to work?side by side with our neighbors and dedicated partners?towards that goal. Take a peek at our farm close-up! https://lnkd.in/eb-c4N58

NYC AgTech Week, which runs in partnership with NYC Climate Week, is just around the corner! Events will be held on 9/23, 9/25 & 9/26. Our Co-Founder and Chief Impact Officer, Anastasia Plakias, will be taking part in a panel discussion on 9/26 called "Making it Here: NYC Agriculture Founders Share Pivots, Successes and Learnings". There is also an opportunity to tour one of our rooftop farms that same day. NYC AgTech Week is produced by the NYC Agriculture Collective. Learn more and sign up for tickets here: https://nycagtechweek.org/ Hope to see you there!

What can urban farms, CBO's, and a leading NYC hospital do to improve the diet of immigrant communities in Brooklyn? PLENTY! Learn what NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Brooklyn Grange, and others are collectively doing through a program called Harvest Share to address this issue head on. Join our very own Liz Dowd, Partnerships Project Manager, and Stella Yi, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor NYU Grossman School of Medicine, to learn about Harvest Share, in a free, virtual seminar on September 17th. Register here: https://lnkd.in/ehMTQCBb Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health

After a decade and a half, our Founders Anastasia Plakias and Ben Flanner are stepping down to make way for new leadership. It's a big role to fill and daunting to find someone worthy of leading our amazing team, but we're confident this network can help us identify an incoming CEO who can help usher Brooklyn Grange into its next era! https://lnkd.in/emV_HC-V

So proud and excited to be helping Conrad New York Downtown'sustainability efforts reach new heights!