6th St & Avenue B Community Garden

snowy scenes from the garden today ❄️

Lots of wonderful FREE events this weekend in the garden! Kids get first pick of the pumpkins, tomorrow at 3pm! + more carving on Sun! 🎃 also a beautiful art event about the wildflowers of the Ukrainian steppe as part of the Ukrainian Cultural Festival. See the full list here:

6bgarden.org/events

the last kids cooking + gardening event of the year today: planting bulbs & making borscht ❤️ we’ll see all our wonderful families & helpers next season!

A few scenes from our native plant beds in the garden this week 🍂 #nativeplants #pollinatorgarden #communitygarden #nyc

Also coming up this weekend 🎶 FREE live music in the garden on Saturday 10/18 @ 7pm 🎵 find our full events calendar here for more: 6bgarden.org/events

Join us on Sunday, October 19th 3-5pm for our last FREE KIDS COOKING event of the season! Chef Michael will make a delicious pot of borscht, we’ll plant daffodil bulbs together and everyone takes home a recipe card 🫜 rsvp here: 6bgarden.org/contact-us

the beautiful swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) going to seed in our native plant beds this week 🍂 #nativeplants #pollinatorgardening

We’ve had a few schedule adjustments this week due to the weather! ☔️ Our poetry event and film screenings have all been moved to next weekend & beyond. Hope to see you then! Posters below with the new dates + details always fully updated on our website: 6bgarden.org/events

kicking off our 42nd 6&B Harvest Fest today! join us in the garden until 7pm 🍃 come have some BBQ and pick up a t-shirt!

And one more prize!

Takahashi, 85 Ave A - $80 gift certificate, expires 4/3/2026

Come by the garden gate starting at 12:30pm to buy your raffle tickets for $1 each, then the Harvest Fest goes from 2-7pm, hope to see you there! 🍂

And a few more!

Commodore, 14 Ave C - $75, T-shirt, hat, coozie

Corner Bistro, 94 Ave A - 2 prizes $60, 2 $30 T-shirts

Jen Jaffe, Garden Member - $195 Archival framed watercolor “Untitled Sky”

Mark C., Garden Member - $250 framed Photograph featured in ‘And Just Like That”

Even more prizes!

Mary O’s Irish Soda Bread Shop, 93 1/2 E 7th St - $30 gift certificate for a box of 6 scones

Shawn King, garden member - $20 bottle hot hot sauce from 6B garden’s peppers

Titi’s Empanadas, 130 E 7th St - 2 prizes $50, 2 T-shirts $25 each

Thanks so much to @evgrieve.bsky.social for helping us get the word out about our 42nd annual 6&B Harvest Fest tomorrow 10/4! 🍂🍁

more autumn beauty in the garden this week 🌿 our aromatic aster (Symphyotrichum oblongifolium) in bloom! 💜 #nativeplants #communitygarden #nyc

Plus!

Dorine Oliver, garden member - $75 watercolor of French Countryside

Sally Young, Garden Member - $100 framed original art work

And more!

Two Boots Pizza, 42 Ave A - $50 gift card

Overthrow Hospitality, 445 E 6th St - $100 gift card, for one of their 8 restaurants

Mashbill Wines & Spirits, 24 Ave C - $35 bottle fine rose wine

And a few last minute additions!

Pasta Rullo, 441 E 9th St - $50 credit to use at Pasta Rullo

Gabriel Don, garden member - $20, Gabriel's Living Without Skin poetry book.

Gnocco, 332 E10th St, $50 gift card

Saadia, Garden member -3 prizes, $90, $30 each set of 2 Pakistani pillow covers

A few photos from our most recent kids cooking class in the garden, celebrating el Día de la Independencia de México! We harvested potatoes, tomatoes & peppers and made tacos & guacamole 🌮🥑🥔 #kidscookingclass #foodjustice

pollinators enjoying the asters in our native plant beds this week 🌿🐝 #nativeplants

A little update on our Harvest Fest raffle prize situation! Raffle tickets are still only $1, stop by the garden during our open hours + on the day of the event (October 4th) to buy tickets. Thanks to all our amazing local businesses for their donations! Here is our current list of prizes:

A quick note to let you all know that our film screening that was scheduled for tonight is cancelled due to rain, please stay tuned for a new date, coming soon! And come join us this weekend for two other wonderful FREE events, open mic on Sat. 9/27 + African dance on Sun. 9/28. Hope to see you! 🌿

Also this weekend, on Sunday 9/14 at 3pm we’ll host a beautiful tea ceremony & art installation event in the garden, all our events are free and open to the public! More info here: 6bgarden.org/allevents/ba...

🍅 SATURDAY, Sept. 13th 🍅 FREE cooking class in the garden for kids ages 5 & up! RSVP here to let us know you'd like to join: 6bgarden.org/contact-us

Our annual Harvest Fest raffle is starting to heat up! 🔥 Raffle tickets are still only $1, stop by the garden during our open hours + on the day of the event (October 4th) to buy tickets. Thanks to all our amazing local businesses for their donations! Here is the list of prizes so far:

Save the date for our annual 6&B Harvest Fest: Saturday, Oct. 4th! 🍂

Oops, the film screening is on Sept. 15th! We’ll see you then!

and music on Saturday evening, too! 🎶

Lots of fantastic FREE events coming up in the garden this week, see our website for more details! 6bgarden.org/events

More fantastic FREE events coming up this weekend! We kick things off tomorrow AM with meditation & qi gong 🪷, then live music on Saturday 🎶, and a writing workshop ✍️ + jewelry making on Sunday 💎 hope to see you! More events here: 6bgarden.org/events

So many great FREE events coming up in the garden over the next few days, hope you’ll join us! Find all our event listings here: 6bgarden.org/events