Harvest Festival 2023

The Weeksville Harvest Festival is our annual celebration of the transition into fall with a day of family-friendly activities celebrating Black land, food justice, and collective well-being. WHC’s 2023 Harvest Festival was centered on health and wellness – and featured an on-site farmers’ market, health fair, arts & crafts, yoga and pilates, live music, tours of the historic Hunterfly Road Houses, special presentations, and so much more! We were glad to host this opportunity to experience what makes Weeksville a transformational space.

Photos by Rachel Topping

Photos by Philip Everette

Photos by Kwesi Abbensetts

The 2023 Harvest Festival featured:

• Health Practitioners: Tribeca Pediatrics, Bedford Stuyvesant Family Health Center, Movement to Birth Liberation, BK Borough President’s Office, Brooklyn Community Pride, Community Board 8, and COVID/Flu vaccines provided by Frontline Pharmacy and Surgical

• Local Vendors: Herstory Studios, Essence Smoothies, Grey Wraps, Regal Roots, XXVZ Nails, Bizzee Body, and Blockprint Backdrop

• Free books! from Brooklyn Book Bodega

• Stretch therapy & pilates by Slam Duncan Wellness

• Yoga by Sensate Wellness

• Farmers’ market with affordable, fresh produce by Grow NYC

• A Cooking Demo / Talk by the Food Griot

Farmers’ Market Produce List:

• Apples – Macoun & Sansa, 2 for $1
• Grapes – Mars, $2 each
• Pumpkins – for Pie, $4 each

• Beets – $2 per bunch
• Broccoli – Crowns, $2 each
• Cabbage – Green, $2 each
• Carrots – Rainbow & Orange, $3 per bunch
• Collard Greens, $2 per bunch
• Corn – Sweet Bicolor, $1 each
• Kale – Green Curly, $3 per bunch
• Onions – Yellow Medium & Red Medium, 2 for $1
• Potatoes – Yukon, 3 for $1
• Salad Greens – Baby Mixed Romaine, $3 each
• Spinach – Baby, $3 each
• Sweet Potatoes – Organic, Orange, $1 each
• Tomatoes – Roma/Plum, 2 for $1
• Winter Squash – Butternut, $2 each