Red Shed Community Garden
A shared public green space in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, run by volunteers with support from NYC Parks GreenThumb 🌿🌷We garden organically, compost, support pollinators, harvest rainwater, follow safe soil practices to improve soil health, and work to create a warm and inviting community 🐝🦋🌺If the gate's open, welcome, come in ! 🍃🌱
Garden + Membership Info
Membership is $25 per household per season ($0 hardship pricing + annual fee waived if affordability is an issue). 💸 Membership grants access to the garden via combination code lock. 🔓 Please don't share the code with non-members as this can create unsafe situations: encourage them to join instead! New members are able to get the lock code at their first meeting after joiningMajor garden decisions are made in person, at scheduled workday meetings, via discussion and a majority vote of members taking part in a given meetingAll members may use shared garden space and harvest vegetables, herbs, and fruit from our community plots (near the skillman entrance) and trees 🌶️🥬Private plots are available on a first come, first serve basis to active members. Please don't harvest from private plots without asking the owner 🫣Members are asked to leave the garden in better condition than they found it and help how they can, including attending workdays and signing up to spend scheduled time in the garden so that it is open to the community 🧹🙋
how to join + get involved
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Red Shed Community Garden does not discriminate + follows NYC Parks Greenthumb rules and applicable laws. Red Shed Community Garden reserves the right to refuse or suspend the membership of anyone who repeatedly and/or knowingly disregards these rules + laws or otherwise creates unsafe situations. A full copy of the Red Shed Community Garden charter and bylaws is available digitally by request or on-site
Garden Workdays
The sun is shining, get your hands in the dirt! Workdays are the best way to connect with other members and understand how you can help 🌞🪴🧑🌾
garden workdays begin
w/ a meeting at 10:30 am
There is always upkeep and usually a project or two. If you aren't sure where to start, the trees, flowers, community beds, and sidewalk beds are probably thirsty. Water the roots not the leaves when possible. 🫠🌻💦We keep the garden and sidewalks free of litter 🚮
Compost
Red Shed Community Garden’s 3-bin compost system is open to all members ♻️♻️
we compost
Vegetable food scraps, including citrus 🍋 🥦
Coffee grounds, filters, tea bags (no metal!) ☕️
Beans 🫘
Eggshells 🥚
Grains 🌾
Nuts 🌰
Brown paper bags without ink/paint (please rip into small pieces) 📜
we DO NOT compost
Oil or greasy foods 🛢️
Animal products: meat, dairy, cheese, fish, bones, shells, bread that touched any of these things 🧀🍖🐟
Plastics: bags, utensils, dishes, cups... even if they say 'compostable' 🥤🍽️‼️
Packaging: rubber bands, stickers, twist ties, staples, etc
Bleached paper: towels, napkins, printed materials 🧻
Human or animal waste: tissues, cat litter 🙀
Weeds: processed offsite, we put weeds in an open brown paper leaf bag. Extras on the stage or in the shed. Do not overfill, bags get heavy and break
how to compost
Add your compost from the allowed items in the left/south bin (Conselyea side)
Find the corkscrew tool. It’s usually leaning against the willow tree. Sometimes near the bins of browns left/south of the compost. Less commonly in the shed 😉
Stir your compost into the scraps bin: screw the tool through your fresh scraps into the compost below, and pull up. Repeat a few times
Top with browns. From the trash-can style bins left/south of the compost bins, scoop enough browns to cover the fresh compost
