Bronx River Foodway Field Trip

About Facilitators

Ghetto Gastro is a Bronx-born culinary collective from Jon Gray, Pierre Serrao, and Lester Walker. We’ve notably defined our own lane, merging food, fashion, music, art, and design.
The Bronx serves as our home, muse and a driver of global culture. It’s where Caribbean, Latin, Asian and African cultures seamlessly thrive together, often creating new flavors of their own – including us. We’re storytellers, food enthusiasts, vibe curators, activists, artists, historians, entrepreneurs and everything in between the lines. We create experiences and products that champion race, identity and economic empowerment.

Field Meridians is an artist collective committed to creating tools for ecological resilience through social practice. With site-specific programming, publishing, and radio broadcast, Field Meridians engages the Crown Heights community to lay the foundations for food sovereignty and infrastructures of repair in the heart of Brooklyn. Our work invests in designing relationships between humans and more-than-human collaborators, transmission through the Commons, and creative practice as pollination. Our longterm goal is to plant a publicly stewarded food forest in Crown Heights.

Objective:

Field Meridians wants to plant a food forest in Crown Heights and we want you to be involved. Join us and our friends Ghetto Gastro as we take a field trip to the Bronx to learn more about the Bronx River Foodway—the only edible food forest inside a city park—its ecology, its mission and what it means to steward a food forest on public lands in New York City.

For those who might be interested, we will walk to lunch at a nearby restaurant on Westchester Avenue where we’ll order food family style. We’ll try to keep lunch under $20/per person.

What to Bring:

• Notebook and Pen
• Comfortable clothing and walking shoes

How to Get There:

Allot for 1.5 hours to get to the Bronx River Foodway via public transportation from Crown Heights. Take the 2/3 Train to the 4/5 to 125th Street. At 125th transfer to the 6 Train to Whitlock Avenue.

Disclaimer:

In case of inclement weather, we will send an email 2 hours ahead of the program. Rain date is November 2nd, timed with the Bronx River Alliance’s 3rd Annual Community Banquet.

This will be a 1.5-2 hour walking tour along unpaved pathways. If you decide to drive, please note there is no onsite parking, however, there is parking on adjacent streets or along Sheridan Blvd.