Name: Phoenix Garden
Address: 2037 Fulton Street
Neighborhood: Brownsville, Brooklyn
Year Founded: 2007

Sunny and spacious and located in Brownsville, Brooklyn, the Phoenix Garden is dedicated to urban agriculture and is capable of producing a bounty: in season, nearly 2,000 pounds of beans, corn, collards, cabbage, tomatoes, zucchini, herbs and callaloo (a Caribbean favorite) are harvested. The vegetables are shared with Neighbors Together, a local organization that serves over 500 people each day at a soup kitchen across the street from the garden. New steel edging, pathways, and mulch were laid out this year along with the construction of an artisanal shade structure made from salvaged beams that includes a grape arbor as well. A red tin shed reminiscent of a barn serves as the focal centerpiece of this triangle plot and reminds us that a farm can be anywhere.