hattie carthan community garden
In the mid-90’s the garden was targeted to become a local police site and the gardeners worked with local politicians and local residents to rally and distribute petitions which halted the sale of the property.
Yonnette Fleming is a visionary, musician and food and environmental justice activist who currently lives in Brooklyn. Fleming was born in Guyana, South America and migrated to the U.S at age sixteen. Her community service work in New York began in 1996 as a volunteer at domestic violence shelters and food pantries in Brooklyn. Over the last year, Fleming has worked with neighborhood schools to cultivate health and sustainability from the impressionable years by creating a garden based curriculum which promotes science, social studies, art and music and using the garden as an outdoor learning center for elementary school children in the Brooklyn community.
Contributor: Yonette Fleming