Type of Project: Garden

Name of Project: Bedford Stuyvesant Community Garden

Location: Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

Use: Community Garden

Size: 5,000 SF

Completion Date: 2012

Designer: Alive Structures

Project Description: Alive Structures collaborated with North East Brooklyn Housing Development Corporation (NEBHDCO) to apply for an Environmental Justice Grant from the Department of Environmental Protection to restore a community garden in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

After removing debris, several unhealthy shrubs and trees Alive Structures designed and installed a native plant and vegetable garden for the communities’ use. A circle of columnar Eastern Red Cedars surrounds a renovated brick round with a rock garden centerpiece.

Photographer: Hugh Reid, 2013