October’s Studio of the Month: Twisted Trunk Yoga.

Our neighborhood studio will help you get your pre-Harvest Festival stretch on in the Garden!

Instructor: Susanna Harwood Rubin.

Open to the public. Free.
All skill levels are welcome. BYOM(at)!

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.

October’s Studio of the Month: Twisted Trunk Yoga

Each week, an instructor from our neighborhood studio will help you get your stretch on in the Garden!

Instructors:
Oct. 26 — Sara Auster
Oct. 19 — Suzanne Monto
Oct. 12 — Paige Myles
Oct. 5 — Susanna Harwood Rubin

Sept. 28 — Angelica Olstad, Co-Founder Pop Up Yoga
Sept. 21 — Kevin Lamb, Twisted Trunk Yoga
Sept. 14 — Will Schneider, Yoga Vida

Come out to help prepare the Garden for the Harvest Festival.

Bring your neighbors and friends!

Come out to help prepare the Garden for the Harvest Festival.

Bring your neighbors and friends!

The Daffodil Project was founded in 2001 as a living memorial to Sept. 11. With nearly 5 million free bulbs planted citywide by more than 100,000 school kids, parks and gardening groups, civic organizations, corporate volunteers and other New Yorkers, it is one of the largest volunteer efforts in the city’s history.

Learn how easy it is to volunteer and help keep the gates open for our community.

Help us review the season and begin planning the next.

Email us if you plan to plan to attend.

Enjoy an hour in the sun…. Learn how easy it is to share one hour a month to volunteer and help keep the Garden gates open for our community.

Thanks to Lovely Day for generously offering hot refreshment to volunteers during shifts.

Let’s raise a glass to celebrate the close of our second season open to the public.

Email us by Monday, Dec. 8 if you plan to plan to attend so we may ensure enough seating … and glasses.

Celebrate Midwinter and Lighter Days To Come!

Cocoa by A.B. Biagi
Hot Apple Cider by Lovely Day
Caroling by Molly Gallagher & Friends and Kim Kalesti

Open to the public. Free.

Focus:
1. Citizens Committee for New York City Neighborhood Grant. (Last year, the Garden received $3,000 for our Bees, Butterflies & Worms season-long initiative.)
2. Update on Feb. 8 Love Local Treasure Hunt.
3. Winter Garden activities.

Visit neighborhood shops, complete fun activities to win grand prizes and support the Garden!

Be our valentine and join us for Elizabeth Street Garden’s first LOVE LOCAL Treasure Hunt from noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 8, come snow or come shine. Prize drawings at 6:30 p.m. This FREE event is open to the public.

Hunt for NoLIta and Little Italy neighborhood shops and restaurants floating green balloons outside and complete fun activities inside to enter grand prize drawings for treasure — more than $3,000 worth of amazing booty donated by 46 participating businesses. Prizes include gift certificates, dinners out, personal services, clothing, jewelry … to name a few. The more establishments visited, the more chances to win! Peasant, 194 Elizabeth St., will host prize drawing finale at 6:30 p.m. and provide light bites and refreshments.

“With LOVE LOCAL Treasure Hunt, we are thrilled to bring together elements of our neighborhood that make it so special — the small businesses, residents and Elizabeth Street Garden,” said Emily Hellström, Garden volunteer and event coordinator. “This event not only raises awareness for the Garden, but also invites us all to come together to build community and celebrate the unique treasure that our neighborhood truly is.”

In addition to their contribution of drawing prizes, participating businesses have pledged to give 10 percent of purchases made cooperatively with the LOVE LOCAL Treasure Hunt event to support Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden.

If you would like to be a part of the Garden’s LOVE LOCAL Treasure Hunt — as a participating business or volunteer, email [email protected].

How To Participate

1. Look for green balloons outside participating neighborhood shops and restaurants located on the LOVE LOCAL Treasure Hunt map. Maps will be available at the Garden, participating businesses and online.
2. Complete fun activities at each location to enter prize drawings for treasure contributed by participating businesses. The more shops visited, the more chances to win!
3. Join the discussion. Engage with us on Twitter @ElizabethStGrdn using #ESGLoveLocal. Check in at our Facebook Place ElizabethStreetGarden, tag yourself in our photos and upload yours to our Timeline. Post on Instagram @ElizabethStGrdn.
4. Win prizes and enjoy light bites and refreshments. Prize drawings will be held at 6:30 p.m. at Peasant, 194 Elizabeth St. You don’t need to be present to win … but wouldn’t it be more fun?

Neighborhood Shops and Restaurants Taking Part

• A.B. Biagi, 235 Elizabeth St.
• Adore Floral, 357 Lafayette St.
• Alex Mill, 268 Elizabeth St.
• Anya Ponorovskaya, 251 Elizabeth St.
• Armor-Lux, 232 Mulberry St.
• Ashtanga Yoga New York, 430 Broome St.
• Atelier Cologne, 247 Elizabeth St.
• Bag-all, 219 Mott St.
• BedHead Pajamas, 252 Elizabeth St.
• Broad Meadows, 246 Mott St.
• Cydwoq New York, 247 Mulberry St.
• Eileen’s Special Cheesecake, 17 Cleveland Place
• Emmett McCarthy | EMc2, 240 Elizabeth St.
• Freida Rothman, 248 Mott St.
• Go Green Organic Spa & Shop, 149 Bowery
• Isola Trattoria & Crudo Bar at Mondrian SoHo, 9 Crosby St.
• John Fluevog Shoes, 250 Mulberry St.
• Linhardt, 211 Mott St.
• Little Cupcake Bakeshop, 30 Prince St.
• Little Rascal, 163 Elizabeth St.
• Lolë New York Atelier, 112 Mercer St.
• Lost Wax Studio, 171 Elizabeth St.
• Love Adorned, 269 Elizabeth St.
• Lovely Day, 196 Elizabeth St.
• lululemon athletica SOHO Mens, 127 Prince St.
• Made in Earth, 250 Elizabeth St.
• Michele Varian, 27 Howard St.
• Nanako, 259 Elizabeth St.
• Nolita Wine Merchants, 227 Mulberry St.
• OTTE, 281 Mott St.
• Piccolini NYC, 167 Mott St.
• PUBLIC, 210 Elizabeth St.
• Red Flower, 13 Prince St.
• Shu’s Flower, 179 Mulberry St.
• Space Cowboy Boots, 234 Mulberry St.
• T Shop, 247 Elizabeth St.
• Tacombi at Fonda Nolita, 267 Elizabeth St.
• The Sock Hop, 248 Elizabeth St.
• Thomas Sires, 243 Elizabeth St.
• Three Monkeys Eyewear, 35 Spring St.
• Unis, 226 Elizabeth St.
• Vint & York, 247 Elizabeth St.
• VMV Hypoallergenics, 227 Mott St.
• Warm, 181 Mott St.
• Westerlind, 31 Spring St.
• Will Leather Goods, 29 Prince St.

Join thousands of community gardeners and greening professionals from all over New York City for a day of learning, sharing, networking and greening inspiration at the 31st Annual GreenThumb GrowTogether!

This year’s conference features favorite workshops from past years, as well as exciting new ones, including many hands on workshops for youth gardeners.

Pre-register before March 13 to guarantee breakfast, lunch, workshop attendance and a t-shirt.

Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden will cover the $5 registration fee for the first 10 attendees who pre-register by March 13.  If you are interested in attending, please contact [email protected].  Children under 12 are free.

Learn how easy it is to volunteer as little as an hour a month to help keep the Garden gates open.

The more greeters who volunteer, the longer the gates can remain open daily. Please reach out to your friends and neighbors, and encourage them to volunteer.

It’s spring, and many of us need to get outside and play in the dirt!

Join Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden for bagels & spreads and coffee and help get the Garden ready for the season. Let’s clean, cut back, dig and divide. BYOPruners, if you have them.

(For the “other-than-green thumbs” among us, there is plenty of necessary organizing to do, as well. )

Open to the public and FREE.

Learn how easy it is to volunteer as little as an hour a month to help keep the Garden gates open.

The more greeters who volunteer, the longer the gates can remain open daily. Please reach out to your friends and neighbors, and encourage them to volunteer.