Plant Sale at the Beach 91st Street Community Garden — This Sunday!

Join the Beach 91st Street Community Garden crew for our annual plant sale this Sunday, May 17, from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Please say a while! The weather looks perfect. Bring snacks or a full feast picnic and spend a fun, relaxed afternoon in the garden. There will be garden books to inspire your spring planting. We’ll have paper and colored pencils for the kids to draw flowers. Bring a camera and take some photographs of the growing garden. A guitar will be present!  And there will be plants for sale.

Proceeds from Bellas’ Lemonade Stand will go to the dance company at Waterside School – 140 Beach 112 St, Rockaway Park.

Expect herbs and your go-to vegetable starters. We’ll also have salt-tolerant perennials like pink echinacea, yellow daylilies, and purple walker’s low (for your garden, teas, and cats). You’ll find the late-blooming autumn joy succulent with soft burgundy flowers, along with marigolds — pictured on the poster. They’re not ice cream cones, FYI… though, they can be anything you want them to be! Plus, expect other year-round color choices to brighten your garden. Some houseplants, too!

The plants are generously donated by garden members and by NYC Parks GreenThumb.

The Deep Sea bar soaps are infused with rosemary and mint grown at the Beach 91st Street Community Garden.

Holland Avenue Soap Co. will be joining us with a selection of handcrafted olive oil bar soaps, blends are made with purified seawater, and others are infused with herbs grown right here at the Beach 91st Street Community Garden. These offerings are thoughtfully crafted locally by garden member Mike Benigno. Check out the IG – @hollandavesoapco.

Bella’s back with lemonade! Our garden friend and young entrepreneur will be serving fresh, tart lemonade and her best seller, unicorn pee!  A taste of sunshine, sugar, and springtime feels for a lovely day in the garden. All proceeds from Bellas’Lemonade Stand will go to the dance company at Waterside School, where she performs. This year, the program almost shut down due to funding, so let’s buy some lemonade!

The garden plant sale and hangout is an opportunity to meet your neighbors, catch up with friends, and enjoy Rockaway nature by the sea.

Proceeds from the fundraiser help support improvements to the garden, along with our community events throughout the year. The Beach 91st Street Community Garden is thankful for the ongoing support of our neighbors and the Rockaway community!

And look out for our upcoming drawing meet-ups co-hosted with @rockawayartroom.