June is fund and friendraising month at the Hattie Carthan Community Garden Bedford Stuvesant Brooklyn. As you may already be aware, the Hattie Carthan Community Garden has converted an abandoned lot previously used as a neighbourhood dumping ground into a thriving neighbourhood community farmers market which will improve fresh food access to members of the Central Brooklyn community.

We envision a marketplace which remembers the agricultural heritage of Bedford Stuyvesant, one that contributes to the cultural, social and economic vitality of Brooklyn and seeks to enhance the quality of life in the Bedford Stuyvesant Central Brooklyn area by providing fresh locally grown food to community residents and entrepreneurial opportunities for a variety of locally grown and value added farm products and commodities directly to the customer. Our community farmers’ market programs will sustain community health, good nutrition, energy, human dignity, and the opportunity for individuals to meet their full potential.

No matter how noble and pure our intentions, we cannot meet our goals alone. The success of community service organizations such as ours depends wholly on the involvement and contributions from caring members of the community like you.

We are humbly asking for your generous assistance in helping our group realize our goals. By donating money to our cause and showing up to support fundraising events happening in the garden you are not just helping our garden to continue the work we do in the community but helping to increase access to healthy food for low-income communities.