A Community Garden Grows In Bath Beach, But It Needs Your Help This Sunday!

A new community garden is coming to the neighborhood with a special focus on flood resilient vegetation, but before its grand opening celebration next weekend they’re looking for your help getting roots in the ground this Sunday.

The garden is being built by a recipient of the COJECO Blueprint Fellowship on land owned by the Shore Parkway Jewish Center (8885 26th Avenue), where the very excellent SNAP to Grow! Urban Farm is also located.

The lot is one that was flooded during Superstorm Sandy, and the soil is still filled with salt. The Blueprint Fellow, Laura Vladimirova, a former editor of Bensonhurst Bean, is going to be teaching those that come about resilient plants and techniques to mitigate damaged, salt-logged soils.

Come get your hands dirty, learn something, and make the community a more beautiful, resilient place!