'Everything in the garden teaches us about life': Farmer Yonette Flemming on the Hattie Carthan Community Garden
Morning Edition is broadcasting live Friday from the Hattie Carthan Community Garden in the heart of Brooklyn's Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood.
This garden was named for Hattie Carthan, a resident of Bed-Stuy, whose campaign to save and plant trees in her neighborhood in the 1960s sparked a decades-long career of organizing around urban ecology and community empowerment.
On the corner of Lafayette and Marcy Avenues, where an Episcopal church and school burned to the ground in a suspected arson during white flight from the neighborhood, flowers now bloom and pumpkins and okra grow, and people are saving seeds, composting and caring for chickens.
Farmer Yonette Flemming is one of the driving forces behind the garden. She spoke with WNYC's Morning Edition host Michael Hill.
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Farmer Yonette Flemming asked that we include the following:
The Hattie Carthan community foodways is grateful to Green Guerillas for the opportunity to host the Morning Edition team.
Grateful to WNYC for rotation.
Grateful to our garden members.
Grateful to all of our supporters along the food chain. Seen and unseen.
We are forever grateful to those who've worked in the garden farm and market to birth what is here today.
We envision health and wellbeing for all who choose it.
Websites:
www.hattiecarthsncommunitymarket.com
Elderly and deceased gardeners oral histories:
www.hattiecarthangarden@yahoo.com
Monthly episodes with Farmer Yon and the Hattie Carthan media justice team: Food.Light.Energy.Love podcast on SoundCloud.Â
