Community Spotlight: Cedar Tree Community Garden

My favorite thing about our new block is that there are three beautiful community gardens! They are a vital resource for local Brooklyn residents to grow their own food and flowers, build and support our community, to teach children the importance of healthy food and our environment amongst other things. I will highlight each one of these gardens in the coming weeks. (It's hard to imagine that there is a garden hidden deep under the blanket of snow covering Brooklyn.)

On the east end of the block, closest to Classon Avenue is Cedar Tree Community Garden.

NY Magazine provided some background on the garden in their 2008 "local heros" section:

"Cecil Prince started clearing this lot 30 years ago with his father, not long after they arrived from Guyana, and he’s still hauling the rocks around. Today, twenty members garden there, producing vegetables, fruit, and flowers. He started planting peach trees twenty years ago; now there are four."

I am trying to find out if there are ways to contribute to the garden and lend support. Stay tuned.