Start your Halloween early and celebrate at Elizabeth Street Garden’s Second Annual Harvest Festival from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 25. (Rain date: Sunday, Oct. 26.)

Costumes encouraged!

Invite friends and neighbors and enjoy a day of fun activities for all ages, live music, and lite bites and refreshments donated by neighborhood businesses. Give back by bringing canned vegetables to benefit The Bowery Mission’s Thanksgiving Meal.

For Everyone

• Jack-o’-Lantern Contest. Bring your carved creations to the Garden. Ribbons will be awarded at day’s end for the funniest, scariest and craziest designs. Pumpkins can remain on display through Halloween.
• Live Music performed by Laura Gragtmans,  Eric Leva, Lauren Ruff & Friends, and Shaeera Tariq.
• Sketching by Spring Studio with flutist Andrew Bolotowsky.
• Photo Gazebo for social sharing. Visit our social media station, tag with #elizabethstreetgarden and tell the world why the Garden is important to you!

For Kids

• Game of Bones Halloween Party with crafts by McNally Jackson Books. Ghoulify wicked wooden coffins, create creepy costumes and play ghostly games.
• Pumpkin Decorating courtesy of Whole Foods Market.
• Mask Making by Little Peep Prep.
• Face Painting by the Chinatown YMCA.
• Festival Photos by The Montessori in SoHo.

For Green Thumbs

• Planting Daffodil Bulbs courtesy of New Yorkers for Parks. No gardening skills required. Just the desire to get your hands in the dirt.
  (Garden tools provided by GrowNYC.)

For Early Birds

• Meridian Tapping by Wenji Zou at 10 a.m.
• Vinyasa Yoga by Twisted Trunk Yoga at 11 a.m.

For updated activity and event times and details, visit the Garden calendar.

Lite Bites and Refreshments Donated By

• A.B. Biagi
• Black Seed
• Cafe Habana
• Little Cupcake Bakeshop
• Little Rascal
• Lombardi’s Pizza
• Lovely Day
• Pomodoro Pizza
• Prince Street Pizza
• PUBLIC
• Rubirosa Ristorante
• 16 Handles
• Sweetgreen
• Tacombi

The Harvest Festival is the culmination of our Bees, Butterflies & Worms neighborhood-led initiative which began in spring to educate children and adults about eco-gardening, habitat creation, urban wildlife and sustainable stewardship, with funding provided in part by Citizens Committee for New York City.