The Hattie Carthan Community Farmers’ Market is hosting its second annual Hattie Carthan Market Farmy Folks Soiree featuring a seasonal farm - to- table spread, locally grown/produced wines, and local bread. The evening opens with an address from the founding farmer, followed by a rhythmical performance by The Hattie Carthan Urban Agriculture corps and market staff, and a visual review of our 2012 market season and community. The Hattie Carthan Market Farmy Folks Soiree will bring together local food lovers, urban gardeners, urban farmers, food justice advocates, volunteers and neighbors to raise funds to support the market’s community revitalization work in the Central Brooklyn food desert.



The Hattie Carthan Community Farmers’ Market was founded by Yonnette Fleming in 2009 and a group of 13 gardeners. In 2011 Fleming worked with local volunteers to transform a second blighted lot into a community farm and market. Fleming has served the community as resident famer since 2009 and coordinates programs and events in both markets. The two Markets are coordinated by volunteers and have distributed over thirty tons of food since their inception. The markets also engage residents in cultural, food and fitness programming in the markets, and through a Playstreet that is now hosted on the street facing the market where violent deaths have occurred for years.



The Saturday market houses a clay oven where neighborhood residents come to learn to bake high fiber, whole grain breads on Saturdays. The Market and Garden employ, educate and empower twenty local community teens through the Urban Agriculture Youth Corps and offers neighborhood residents and seniors fresh food at an affordable price. The market is home to two chicken coops which provides fresh eggs to basket members and rich compost to the farm.

The markets are places where conversations about food and farm justice happen and culturally appropriate foods are considered vital to community nutrition. The green spaces are safe, multigenerational places for community socialization and healthy cultural activities. The Hattie Carthan Community Farmers’ Markets is a community’s effort to reclaim its agricultural heritage and contribute to the cultural, social and economic vitality of Central Brooklyn.

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2012 Market Fiscal sponsor: Bailey's Café



Funders - Councilman Al Vanizens Committee, William & Mary Greve Foundation, Jesse Noyes Foundation, Citizens committee for NYC, Con Edison
Supporters - Just Food (City farms Workshops, cooking demos), Grow NYC (plant starts mulch), Green Guerllas (Seeds, administrative, operations), Greenthumb NYC