Juneteenth Food Forest Tour

Objective

Join Field Meridians with Friends of Brower Park for a special Juneteenth tour of Brower Park’s edible canopy and pollinator garden, and learn more about the local community’s efforts to establish a food forest in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Please Note: There are two tour times!! NOON and 2:30PM

About the Crown Heights Food Forest

Field Meridians, an artist collective rooted in Crown Heights, is planting seeds for a public food forest in central Brooklyn. In the winter of 2025, we convened a weekly collective visioning process for a food forest that would address food insecurity, climate resiliency, and environmental racism. With our neighbors, Field Meridians is braiding together art making practice, environmental justice, and collective visioning to build a resilient civic space—an edible ecosystem as classroom. Our goals:

• Model food sovereignty through public access to nutrient-dense, culturally-appropriate foods
• Expand and protect green infrastructure to build resilience to climate change
• Anchor artist-facilitated education program in a living community hub
• Form a Community Land Trust to protect Crown Heights from private development

About the NYC Edible Food Forests Coalition

Our Juneteenth Food Forest Tour is part of a grassroots, city-wide effort to introduce our neighbors to the bounty and possibilities of an edible city. This summer, go on tour with us and meet some of the people and places that are working towards a greener and more delicious New York City. Visit sites on select dates and hear from practitioners on how their site feeds communities while providing critical habitat to wildlife. Explore how these sites provide vital solutions to mitigate impacts from climate change by capturing stormwater, creating a healthy tree canopy, and improving our urban soils!