This week you can purchase: sweet corn, fresh garlic, tomatoes, yellow squash, carrots, onions, broccoli, lettuce, Kirby cucumbers, potatoes, peppers, white peaches, plums, Sansa apples, and quarts of cider.

Community Chef Yvonne Brodrick will be using veggies from our bounty to make a healthy snack. Come by and have a taste!

Please bring your own bag.

Are you ready to Move About Myrtle? We’re kicking it off on September 5th with a “Back to School Celebration”! Come join us for a day of fun and games before heading back to hit the books. The first Sunday is already jam-packed with free activities, music, and merchant specials, and we’re confirming more every week. New contest this year – we’ll select one lucky winner each week to receive $100 in Myrtle gift certificates! To enter, follow us on Facebook or enter at our MARP table at the events, located between Washington and Hall. You can also pick up your Explore Myrtle Avenue game cards at every Sunday event, and enter for your chance to win a Myrtle shopping spree later in the fall!

Click here to find out getting healthy about at Move About Myrtle this weekend, and here to find out about getting your groove on!

Here’s a block-by-block summary of activities for September 5th:

Clermont to Vanderbilt
Did you miss Soul Summit in Fort Greene Park this summer? They’re back in Fort Greene for two more summer dance parties at Move About Myrtle! Soul Summit DJs will spin from 3-6pm on September 5th and September 12th on Myrtle near Clermont. While you're here drop off your gently worn clothes at Tres Elegante’s Textile Drive and check out their fashion show at 4:30pm, browse the sidewalk sale racks at Kiini Ibura, and take advantage of Home and U’s Door Buster specials to give your apartment or dorm room a fall makeover.

Vanderbilt to Clinton
Here’s to your health! Jump in and burn some calories at DPHO’s Shape Up NYC fitness classes for all ages, and enjoy kid-friendly food preparation and tastings with Veggiecation from 1-4pm. Myrtle Eats Fresh Community Chef Dumeha will be cooking and serving up tasty bites made from healthy, affordable ingredients at 4pm. Also, Verizon will be raffling a prepaid cell phone, and Castro’s will be offering tasty Mexican food and barbecuing in the lot at Emigrant Bank. And…we’ve also got free face painting from noon – 3pm!

Clinton to Waverly
For kids (and the inner child in all of us), this block will be devoted to good old-fashioned fun! Hula hoops, street games and sidewalk chalk will be on hand for open use throughout the day, with plenty of ‘blank street canvas’ for all, and free arts and crafts activities! Enjoy free mini-smoothies from Karrot all day, and Sans Souci offers their Caribbean fare in the Citibank lot. Check out the spa promotions at Karen’s Body Beautiful. Green in BKLYN has a full day of activities planned, so make sure to stop by! Make bags from umbrellas with HIMANE from 12-2pm, compost with Vokashi from 2-4pm, and meet local celebrity chef Pierre Tham from Grand Dakar at 4:30pm, have him sign his book, Yolele!, and taste some Somali treats. Yum.

Waverly to Washington
Join local artist Ellie Balk and her team as they create a community ‘mural’ at the fence at the vacant lot next to Bank of America! Trilok Fusion Arts will bring their weaving looms Plenty of space to sit and watch the action here while you enjoy a drink and a bite, with sidewalk cafes at Maggie Brown’s, Thai 101, Anima and Five Spot! Brunch anyone?

Washington to Hall
Brought to you by local yoga and dance studio Move with Grace, this block will feature free yoga, dance, and themed dance parties on each of the four Sundays. This Sunday's lineup:
12 Yoga Class (All Levels) with Grace
2pm Live Music "Major Taylor" - Rock, soul and blues
3:30pm Tahitian Dance Class (All Levels) and Performance with Mikaela Joy
5pm Belly Dance Class with Tamar Raqs
Little girls can get ready for school with a ‘kiddie manicure’ at Polish Bar, and fashionistas can pick up some new pieces at Barking Brown. Lots of sidewalk cafes on this block as well, so if dancing and shopping aren’t for you, then just relax with a cool drink outside Yamashiro, Zaytoons, Kum Kau and Liberty Pizza. You can even catch up on your African cinema outside Billo’s Discount Store!

Here’s a teaser about what’s in store for upcoming weeks:
Soul Summit returns on 9/12!
BAMcafe’ brings featured artists on 9/19 and 9/26
Brooklyn Food Coalition’s Good Food Fest takes over Vanderbilt to Clinton block on 9/12
“The Case of the Curious Pedestrian” brings tons of playful public art projects and performances to the avenue on 9/19
Our first ever bike/scooter/big wheel parade from Hall to Clermont kicks of 9/26, with lots of bike-themed programs throughout the day!

Excited yet??? We are! Spread the word, and we'll see you on Myrtle in a few weeks!

Move About Myrtle is sponsored by the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership with support from St. Joseph's College, Emigrant Bank, and Associated Supermarket.(photos from 2009 Move About Myrtle)

Jump up and wave!!!!!

It's Jamaica's 48th Independence Celebration and Sans Souci Restaurant & Bar at 330 Myrtle Avenue (between Washington Park & Carlton) is doing it up in a BIG way.

Stop in and celebrate the entire weekend: Friday, August 6th; Saturday, August 7th and Sunday, August 8th. Doors open daily at 11am.

Come celebrate culture with live music and fresh, delicious, authentic cuisine: Rundown, Ackee & Saltfish, Roast Breadfruit, Roast Fish, Mackerel, Festival, Sorrel, Bammie, Cornmeal Pudding, Potato Pudding, Roast Corn, Corn Soup, Goathead Soup. All that and more, prepared by Award Winning Chef Basil and his team. Drink specials all day long.

Move your feet everyday: Music each day provided by Country Flex. Live band on Sunday from 4pm thru 8pm

Sans Souci Restaurant & Bar is also the official after party spot for reggae legend, Beres Hammond's performances at BAM/Howard Gilman Opera House on the 6th and 7th. Call Sans Souci Restaurant at 347.227.8135 for further detail.

NYS farmers John Glebocki of J. Glebocki Farms (in picture above) and the Nicholson family of Red Jacket Orchards bring us: Beets, carrots, lettuce, collards, potatoes, white onions, basil, broccoli, eggplant, peppers, parsley, corn, peaches and red plums. Beautiful and delicious food for great prices. Nothing costs over $2.50 per bunch or pound!

We really need and appreciated your support! This is an important community initiative and will continue with dedicated customers such as you!

When: Every Thursday 4PM-7PM
Where: 177 Myrtle btwn Prince and Navy in front of the Ingersoll Community Garden
We accept EBT/WIC/FMNP/Health Bucks

See you at the market!

Have you stopped by yet? We've gotten lots of visitors at the Myrtle Farm Stand so far, even Senator Montgomery dropped by last week! Community support is what will make this project successful, so grab a friend and come on over! This week we've got tomatoes, carrots, collards, corn, green leaf lettuce, spring white onions, peppers, tomatoes, Yukon Gold potatoes, eggplant, basil, and peaches...yum!

Community Chef, Ms. Yvonne Bodrick, showed visitors how to cook a seasonal,mixed veggie stir fry of collard greens, cabbage, carrots, onions, and garlic with brown rice. It was delicious! Next week, Ms. Millie Davis will be cooking from 5-7. Come by and have a taste!

Wednesday, July 21
5-7PM
Northeast corner of Fort Greene Park (Myrtle Avenue & Washington Park -- Cumberland Ave. south of Dekalb).

Opening day was a great success! We had approximately 60 customers and sold out of many items within the first hour. We now know to order more fruit for next week! The farmers bounty was beautiful! We had: Kale, Collard Greens, Zucchini, Carrots, Beets, Blueberries, Cherries, Corn, Spinach, Mustard Greens, Lettuce, Onions, Celery, and Radishes.





Ms. Singleton, one of our very own Myrtle Eats Fresh Community Chefs, did a knock-out cooking demonstration! She prepared a delicious veggie stir fry with brown rice and treated us with an extra special addition - bean pie for dessert!

The three Community Youth Managers, two Elder Supervisors, and MARP staff thank all who came out to visit! We look forward to seeing you again and meeting all who have yet to visit.

Where: 177 Myrtle, between Prince and Navy, in front of the Ingersoll Community Center
When: Every Thursday through October
Time: 4-7PM
*Please bring your bags for shopping and use us as a drop off for the pile you most likely have stacking up.

MARP will be launching a community-run farm stand to be held every Thursday in front of the Ingersoll Community Center (177 Myrtle Avenue) from 4pm-7pm from July 8th through October 28th. The farm stand will be staffed by three youth and two elders from the neighborhood, and will bring local produce from the Hunts Point wholesale market to the western end of Myrtle Avenue to help address the limited access to fresh produce. The Myrtle Avenue Farm Stand is part of the Myrtle Eats Fresh program, a 3-year food access initiative funded by the Community Experience Partnership, a collaboration between New York Community Trust, Atlantic Philanthropies, and United Neighborhood Houses. Other efforts of the Myrtle Eats Fresh program include expanding and creating community gardens to grow fresh food at Ingersoll, Whitman, and Farragut houses; a community chef training program whereby several residents who have a passion for healthy cooking have been trained as certified Community Chefs and will now conduct cooking demonstrations at neighborhood events; and the formation of a neighborhood ‘Healthy Food Task Force’, bringing together representatives from interested organizations and other groups to help synergize efforts around improving food access in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.

Then join the Brooklyn Food Coalition on June 5, from 2-4pm at it's free school food training fair at Fort Greene Park.

Meet other parents and educators who are working to improve school food, and the health of Brooklyn's children.

Parents will meet at the field at Myrtle and N. Portland Ave, and the kids are invited to the playground at the corner of Myrtle and St. Edwards Place. The Coalition will provide free supervision and healthy snacks for all children who attend.

For more information, contact the Brooklyn Food Coalition at 347-329-5093 or info[at]brooklynfoodcoalition[dot]org.

Myrtle Avenue Bird Town has arrived at two locations on Myrtle - Fort Greene Park at St. Edwards Street, and the Carlton Triangle. Join us for and drinks this Thursday, May 6th at Sans Souci (33 Myrtle between Washington Park and Carlton) to celebrate with the town's 'founders', artists Jenn Wong and Daniel Goers.

Check out the artists' website, www.myrtleavenuebirdtown.com, for great photos documenting the building and installation processes. We've also got some great photos on our flickr site too.