Saturday, October 14, 2023

Harvest time: Happy 40th anniversary to the 6th and B Garden

The 6th Street and Avenue B Garden is celebrating its 40th year here at the SW corner of Sixth Street and Avenue B. 

Tomorrow (Sunday, the rain date), the garden hosts its annual HarvestFest from 2-7 p.m.

What to expect? Via the EVG inbox...
... free food + music for our community + an enormous list of fantastic raffle prizes from our beloved local businesses (raffle tickets are still just $1 and go on sale at 12:30 p.m. outside the garden on Sunday), with all proceeds supporting the garden. The complete list of prize donors can be found on our website at 6bgarden.org, with even more updates forthcoming... 
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 14, 2023 at 10:32 AM

    Not a chance to see the partial eclipse today, right?

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  2. SarahOctober 14, 2023 at 10:53 PM

    40 years is truly impressive.

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  3. DrGeckoOctober 16, 2023 at 10:21 AM

    @anon 10:32: There was never a chance to see the partial (annular) eclipse. The path ran in a narrow band from Oregon down through Texas. Next biggie will be a total eclipse in April 2024 that will run through Buffalo.

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  4. Barbara Caporale, 6B Garden PresidentOctober 16, 2023 at 11:11 AM

    This years HarvestFest & 40th Birthday was an awesome success. Thank you to our wonderful community for coming out and celebrating with us and bringing friends; to all the volunteers that worked so hard to help pull off this event; the local businesses and local crafts persons who so generously and graciously donated raffle prizes (we did not ask them last year as they were struggling post pandemic); to Green Guerrillas who donated some supples and Amazon employees who helped with donation and labor in our prep period; Assemblyman Epstein and Senator Kavanaugh for dropping by to hang with the community, and Venieros for the delicious and BEAUTIFULLY decorated big birthday cake.
    Apologies for the changes of dates (due to LUNGS squatting our year-in-advance scheduled date-always the first weekend in Oct, exceptions being Jewish holidays, and the the weather not cooperating). Thank you garden members and LES community for helping pray the rain away (it worked!). Apologies for the confusion to those who came on the wrong dates.
    I have to especially thank Joanee Freedom our raffle prize chief for again, coordinating our tremendous raffle undertaking!
    We thank Citizens Committee for their support throught the years. Maintaining a safe and beautiful community space takes both thousands of dollars, as well as thousands of hours of member & friend of the garden sweat equity volunteer labor. Thank you to all the artists and educators who lent their talent this year for our 75 FREE- to- the-public events, and to Sally Young, our Events chair for booking them and hustling up dollars to pay our local talent.
    Please patronize our local businesses, especially those who donated to the raffle-full list here http:// www.6bgarden.org
    We'll see you around the neighborhood, and at next years Sixth Street & Avenue B Community Garden HarvestFest :)

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