community gardens

Date: Saturday July 21, 2012

Time: arrive at 9:30am, departure at 10:00am, tour ends at 3:00pm

Location: Tour will pick up attendees at New York Visitors and Convention Bureau, located on 810 7th Avenue (and 52nd Street), Manhattan

Annual Bronx Urban Farm Tour
"Food and Hip-­Hop: Hip-­Hop Historical Tour"

Visit the birthplace of Hip-­Hop with official tour guide, Grandmaster Mele Mel on the Bronx Urban Farms Trolley Tour: Hip-­Hop & Food Historical Tour: Beats and Beets! All aboard for the narrated group tour of some of the borough's most amazing working farms - where community farmers tend to their plots of land, micro-­entrepreneurs harvest honey, and chickens roam freely.    

Harlem Grown was founded in June 2011, starting as a volunteer project to help restore a once abandoned community garden. It has since evolved into an interactive outdoor classroom servicing the students and staff of P.S. 175, the Henry H. Garnet School in Central Harlem. The brainchild of Tony Hillery, the organization’s founder and Executive Director, Harlem Grown continues to find ways to work with the community. The organization has a new green house under construction and recently organized a 5th grade trip to the White House garden sponsored by Chop't. Harlem Grown encourages you to keep in touch and grow with them.
 
Check out Harlem Grown’s spot on the NY1 website or visit http://harlemgrown.org