Grand Opening Fundraiser!!

Holy Moly, after 3 years of growing, learning, and re-growing, the Filbert St. Garden is showing off a little.

Come out to the Garden on May 18th, from 2-6 pm. Help us pay our water bill and work with students and neighbors to grow more food! There will be garden tours, docented by students who helped design and plant the garden

We are going to munch on biscuits made by the amazing Blacksauce Kitchen, who are neighbors of ours in Curtis Bay. 
There will be live music by Blue Valley Farmer and by Paper Daughter, 2 local groups with fantastic talent and generous hearts.
Thanks also to the kindness of Aliceanna Winery, Infused Spreads, Bambeco, Charm City Yoga and other local businesses, we're going to have a silent auction.


Students from Ben Franklin High School will be debuting the TRIVEGGIE, their service learning project with Filbert St. Garden. The Triveggie food-cycle is a response from Curtis Bay/Brooklyn students to their neighborhood's lack of fresh food, inspired by Baltimore's rich history of food carts. 

$10/person

$10/neighborhood families

Kids under 10, FREE

DIRECTIONS from Baltimore City-

     Head south! Cross the Hanover St. Bridge, follow Potee to Rt. 2 south.

Make a left at Church St. right after El Salto (muy delicioso) and the Value Village.

Continue for about a mile and make a left on W. Bay at the Farring Baybrook Park entrance.

Make your first right onto Filbert St. Garden on the right.

RSVP to filbertstreetgarden@gmail.com
Can't make it but want to help? Click on that donate button to the right.

Filbert St. Garden Easter Egg Hunt

Next to Curtis Bay Elementary/Middle School.

From Downtown Baltimore:

Cross Hanover St. Bridge, follow signs to Rt. 2 South.

Left at Church, Left at W. Bay. Right on Filbert.

Sign install, Blueberry love, coffee and fresh air.

Curtis Bay Elem./Middle Celebrates the Harvest

Things always seem to be happening at the Garden, no matter the time of year!
Just as November turned into December, and the Filbert St. Gardeners were thinking things were slowing down until next season, some teachers from Curtis Bay Elementary/Middle suggested hosting their fall reward celebration for good behavior at the garden.
Teachers and community members came together to design activity stations, provide some watchful guidance, and plan food for the event.

The result? Over 100 students were rewarded for their good behavior by spending 20 of their "Bark Bucks" to visit the garden. While they were there, students enjoyed a garden treasure hunt looking for berries, seeds, something fragrant, and a piece of trash (which unfortunately didn't seem too hard to find.)
They also helped to paint a garden mural which will soon grace the garden's front entrance. The mural-painting introduced students to painting with stencils, and the images we painted focused on the idea of transformation... in our community, and in our garden.

Students had the opportunity to enjoy some piping hot cider while doing leaf rubbings under our mulberry tree, they played in our meadow with the parachute, and even found the time to do a bit of garden service by helping to mulch the paths for their school garden.

All of this seemed to work up an appetite, so some members of the Curtis Bay Student Green Team help Mr. Jason the Garden Manager make Empanadas. We stuffed our homemade pastries with canned tomato sauce and a bit of cheese. These got put in our wood-fired cob oven, and in only a few minutes came out golden-brown, flaky, and most importantly- delicious!
Thanks to all the teachers who helped to organize the event, and to the students.
We'll probably be moving most of our workshops and activities indoors soon- so stay tuned for news on our community cooking workshops and garden art days.