Start your Halloween early, show your support for Elizabeth Street Garden and celebrate at our third annual Harvest Festival.
Third Annual Elizabeth Street Garden Harvest Festival —
Saturday, Oct. 24, Noon – 4:00 p.m. (Rain date: Sunday, Oct. 25)
Costumes encouraged!
Enjoy a day of FREE, fun activities for all ages, live music, and lite bites and refreshments donated by neighborhood businesses. Give back by bringing canned soups, vegetables and beans to benefit The Bowery Mission’s Thanksgiving Meal.
For Everyone
- Live Music performed by Jason Harrod & Friends, among others.
- Edible Garden Tour with herbalist Kirsten Tempel.
- Cooking Demonstration using the Garden’s harvest by PUBLIC’s chef de cuisine Alan Wise.
- Designing Greeting Cards with pressed leaves by Open Window.
- Social Media Sharing Station. Tag with #elizabethstreetgarden and tell the world why the Garden is important to you!
For Kids
- Ghastly Garden of Ghouls Halloween Party with Halloween art by McNally Jackson Books, featuring Argentine cartoonist and children’s books author Liniers.
- Pumpkin Decorating courtesy of The Montessori in SoHo.
- Little Scientists. Explore the Garden and dig in the dirt with Little Peep Prep.
- Face Painting by the Chinatown YMCA.
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.
For Early Birds
- Vinyasa Yoga at 11 a.m.
Lite Bites and Refreshments Donated By
- A.B. Biagi
- Black Seed
- Cafe Habana
- Café’tal Social Club
- Little Rascal
- Lovely Day
- Pomodoro Pizza
- Prince Street Pizza
- PUBLIC
- Rubirosa Ristorante
- Tacombi
This FREE event is open to the public. For updated activity and event times and details, visit the Garden calendar.
The Harvest Festival is the culmination of Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden’s Edible Garden Lab neighborhood-led initiative, which began in spring to engage both children and adults with the Garden as a living laboratory and has been funded in part by a generous grant from Citizens Committee for New York City.