Upcoming Events
Check out the calendar to see any of our upcoming events and scroll below to read more information!
Hill Street Garden Collective
Join us for the Hill Street Garden Collective! Meet fellow members, get to know the Forgotten Foods team, enjoy light refreshments, and share your ideas for what you’d like to see grown and built in the garden.
Hill Street Garden Collective
Join us for the Hill Street Garden Collective! Meet fellow members, get to know the Forgotten Foods team, enjoy light refreshments, and share your ideas for what you’d like to see grown and built in the garden.
Forgotten Foods Fundraiser Bake Sale & Custom Merch Pop Up!
Join us at the Hill Street Garden (50 Hill Street) to support our youth-led fundraiser! We will have baked goods and merchandise for sale, in addition to the opportunity to customize your own merch!
Hill Street Garden Collective
Join us for the Hill Street Garden Collective! Meet fellow members, get to know the Forgotten Foods team, enjoy light refreshments, and share your ideas for what you’d like to see grown and built in the garden.
Forgotten Foods Fundraiser Bake Sale & Custom Merch Pop Up!
Join us at the Hill Street Garden (50 Hill Street) to support our youth-led fundraiser! We will have baked goods and merchandise for sale, in addition to the opportunity to customize your own merch!
Hill Street Garden Collective
Join us for the Hill Street Garden Collective! Meet fellow members, get to know the Forgotten Foods team, enjoy light refreshments, and share your ideas for what you’d like to see grown and built in the garden.
Hill Street Garden Collective
Join us for the Hill Street Garden Collective! Meet fellow members, get to know the Forgotten Foods team, enjoy light refreshments, and share your ideas for what you’d like to see grown and built in the garden.
Hill Street Garden Collective
Join us for the Hill Street Garden Collective! Meet fellow members, get to know the Forgotten Foods team, enjoy light refreshments, and share your ideas for what you’d like to see grown and built in the garden.
Hill Street Garden Collective
Join us for the Hill Street Garden Collective! Meet fellow members, get to know the Forgotten Foods team, enjoy light refreshments, and share your ideas for what you’d like to see grown and built in the garden.
Hill Street Garden Collective
Join us for the Hill Street Garden Collective! Meet fellow members, get to know the Forgotten Foods team, enjoy light refreshments, and share your ideas for what you’d like to see grown and built in the garden.
Land Sovereignty & Community Land Trusts
Forgotten Foods is excited to host our FREE HYBRID Land Sovereignty & Community Land Trusts Civic Circle. Location is 705 Forest Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10310. Virtual participants welcome.
This workshop will introduce the topic of land sovereignty and explore how Community Land Trusts (CLTs) function as a tool for community control, resisting displacement, long-term affordability, and collective stewardship of land. Join us to learn more about the significance of economic empowerment and protection of our own environment! Our workshop will be hosted by Saul Porter, the Director of Housing Programs at Northfield Community LDC, and Deyanira Del Rio, Executive Director of the New Economy Project.
We will have light refreshments, and one lucky participant will win a fun giveaway raffle item! You may join the event in person or virtually. PLEASE RSVP HERE!
Hill Street Garden Collective
Join us for the Hill Street Garden Collective! Meet fellow members, get to know the Forgotten Foods team, enjoy light refreshments, and share your ideas for what you’d like to see grown and built in the garden.
Hill Street Garden Collective
Join us for the Hill Street Garden Collective! Meet fellow members, get to know the Forgotten Foods team, enjoy light refreshments, and share your ideas for what you’d like to see grown and built in the garden.
Hill Street Garden Collective
Join us for a tea social where we sip herbal teas for immunity! We’ll also be hearing from Take Back St. George about the importance of keeping land in the hands of community.
Hill Street Garden Collective
Join us for the Hill Street Garden Collective! Meet fellow members, get to know the Forgotten Foods team, enjoy light refreshments, and share your ideas for what you’d like to see grown and built in the garden.
Hill Street Garden Collective
Join us for the Hill Street Garden Collective! Meet fellow members, get to know the Forgotten Foods team, enjoy light refreshments, and share your ideas for what you’d like to see grown and built in the garden.
Between now and December, Saturday sessions will focus on:
Winterization techniques and why we shut down during cold season
Proper tool usage, PPE, and general safety by certified trainers
How to properly cut and treat lumber
The basics of green infrastructure and how to build your own garden bed beyond Hill Street Garden
Hill Street Garden Collective
Join us for the Hill Street Garden Collective! Meet fellow members, get to know the Forgotten Foods team, enjoy light refreshments, and share your ideas for what you’d like to see grown and built in the garden.
Between now and December, Saturday sessions will focus on:
Winterization techniques and why we shut down during cold season
Proper tool usage, PPE, and general safety by certified trainers
How to properly cut and treat lumber
The basics of green infrastructure and how to build your own garden bed beyond Hill Street Garden
Hill Street Garden Collective
Join us for the Hill Street Garden Collective! Meet fellow members, get to know the Forgotten Foods team, enjoy light refreshments, and share your ideas for what you’d like to see grown and built in the garden.
Between now and December, Saturday sessions will focus on:
Winterization techniques and why we shut down during cold season
Proper tool usage, PPE, and general safety by certified trainers
How to properly cut and treat lumber
The basics of green infrastructure and how to build your own garden bed beyond Hill Street Garden
Hill Street Garden Collective
Join us for the Hill Street Garden Collective! Meet fellow members, get to know the Forgotten Foods team, enjoy light refreshments, and share your ideas for what you’d like to see grown and built in the garden.
Between now and December, Saturday sessions will focus on:
Winterization techniques and why we shut down during cold season
Proper tool usage, PPE, and general safety by certified trainers
How to properly cut and treat lumber
The basics of green infrastructure and how to build your own garden bed beyond Hill Street Garden
Hill Street Garden Collective
Join us for the Hill Street Garden Collective! Meet fellow members, get to know the Forgotten Foods team, enjoy light refreshments, and share your ideas for what you’d like to see grown and built in the garden.
Between now and December, Saturday sessions will focus on:
Winterization techniques and why we shut down during cold season
Proper tool usage, PPE, and general safety by certified trainers
How to properly cut and treat lumber
The basics of green infrastructure and how to build your own garden bed beyond Hill Street Garden
Transforming Policy in Staten Island
In this workshop Saif will cover the ways, both visible and less visible, policy impacts our community. We will discuss together the various strategies communities have used to effect change, and how we might use those lessons to create a Staten Island for all of us. Plus, all participants will be entered into a giveaway for a 2026 planner + colorful highlighters. All advocates need to stay organized!
Saifeldeen (Saif) Zihiri ESQ, grew up on Staten Island, spending a decent amount of time waiting for the bus to come. He graduated from Hunter College in 2019, studying Religion, Political Science and Human Rights, having won various fellowships that allowed him to study and research everywhere from Georgia to South Korea. He graduated Yale Law School in 2024, and spends most of his time thinking about the law, policy, and again, the bus.
To secure your spot, please register at bit.ly/ff-cc25.
Hill Street Garden Collective Kickoff
Join us for the official kickoff of the Hill Street Garden Collective! Meet fellow members, get to know the Forgotten Foods team, enjoy light refreshments, and share your ideas for what you’d like to see grown and built in the garden. This is the first step in shaping Hill Street Garden together - your voice will help guide the months ahead.
Between now and December, Saturday sessions will focus on:
Winterization techniques and why we shut down during cold season
Proper tool usage, PPE, and general safety by certified trainers
How to properly cut and treat lumber
The basics of green infrastructure and how to build your own garden bed beyond Hill Street Garden
Please RSVP at bit.ly/hsg-meet.
Privilege, Oppression & Anti-Oppressive Leadership
Does privilege matter? Can we hold privilege in some areas of our lives but not others? In this workshop, Jasmine will help you explore the privileges we carry and examine how they shape our daily experiences. Most importantly, you’ll learn how recognizing your own privileges can strengthen your approach to leadership, helping you lead with awareness, equity, and an anti-oppressive lens.
Jasmine Awad, LMSW (she/her) is Forgotten Foods’ Director for Youth Programs and Development and is a forensic social worker and mitigation specialist for the Osborne Association's Court Advocacy Services program, where she works alongside defense attorneys providing mitigation reports and court advocacy to support clients with criminal cases in obtaining alternatives to incarceration. She earned her MSW from Columbia School of Social Work in 2023; and graduated as the valedictorian from CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 2019, where she studied criminal justice and human services. Throughout her educational journey, Jasmine served as a leader in various youth justice, abolition, and advocacy groups and she is passionate about supporting and advocating for individuals impacted by the prison and criminal legal systems. Jasmine has lived on Staten Island for most of her life and is always eager to give back to her community!
To secure your spot, please register at bit.ly/ff-cc25.
The Neighbors Market
The Neighbors Market is a bi-annual pop market held in Staten Island neighborhoods with high food insecurity rates. Our goal is to provide access to fresh, healthy, and affordable produce and mobilize residents around local issues pertaining to food Justice.
This year’s Neighbors Market is focused on organizing neighbors and community members around transforming Hill Street Garden, into a community-owned resource. Hill Street Garden is a GreenThumb-operated garden owned by the NYPD, and while it is a vital space in Stapleton, it is currently underutilized. The garden lacks a sustainable water system, long-term stewardship, and strong community involvement.
This is a unique opportunity for Stapleton residents to come together, learn the skills needed to restore the garden, and be part of building a collective effort to ensure gardens in Stapleton serve our community for years to come. Our goal is to protect Stapleton from developers, return land access to the community, and shift power dynamics to empower residents to build intergenerational, democratic systems of land governance. Together, we’ll work toward restoring this vital space for food sovereignty and community resilience. We need your help to make this a reality!
Here’s what else you can find at The Neighbors Market:
Fresh and culturally-diverse produce sold on a sliding scale from $0 up to $10
FREE meal kits – the first 25 families to register will receive them
Cooking demonstrations for low-cost, seasonal, and healthy meals
Gardening and seed demonstrations
Arts and crafts for kids
Community-based organizations
Entrance is FREE! However, if you’d like to receive produce or a meal kit, registration is required. Please click here to RSVP.
Registration is available in both English and Spanish. El registro está disponible en Inglés y Español.
For any questions, please call (718) 732-0054 or email engagement@forgottenfoods.org. We hope to see you there!
Hill Street Garden Collective Pop-up
Hill Street Garden is the largest garden in Stapleton; however, it lacks strong community involvement, local leadership, and some basic resources.
In partnership with the garden, Forgotten Foods aims to develop it into a lasting resource for food, culture, and community in Stapleton through residential involvement.
Our Collective Meetings are run as a mini pop-up event, including an information session about the collective, a tour of the garden, new member onboarding, refreshments, and kids’ activities. Come and meet your fellow neighbors while getting involved in the garden!
Join us for Collective Pop-ups to make sure the garden stays for the community and is led by the community. We want to hear your ideas and visions for the garden and the collective!
To RSVP, please visit bit.ly/hsg-meet
Hill Street Garden Collective Pop-up
Hill Street Garden is the largest garden in Stapleton; however, it lacks strong community involvement, local leadership, and some basic resources.
In partnership with the garden, Forgotten Foods aims to develop it into a lasting resource for food, culture, and community in Stapleton through residential involvement.
Our Collective Meetings are run as a mini pop-up event, including an information session about the collective, a tour of the garden, new member onboarding, refreshments, and kids’ activities. Come and meet your fellow neighbors while getting involved in the garden!
Join us for Collective Pop-ups to make sure the garden stays for the community and is led by the community. We want to hear your ideas and visions for the garden and the collective!
To RSVP, please visit bit.ly/hsg-meet
Hill Street Garden Collective Pop-up
Hill Street Garden is the largest garden in Stapleton; however, it lacks strong community involvement, local leadership, and some basic resources.
In partnership with the garden, Forgotten Foods aims to develop it into a lasting resource for food, culture, and community in Stapleton through residential involvement.
Our Collective Meetings are run as a mini pop-up event, including an information session about the collective, a tour of the garden, new member onboarding, refreshments, and kids’ activities. Come and meet your fellow neighbors while getting involved in the garden!
Join us for Collective Pop-ups to make sure the garden stays for the community and is led by the community. We want to hear your ideas and visions for the garden and the collective!
To RSVP, please visit bit.ly/hsg-meet
Hill Street Garden Collective Meeting
Hill Street Garden is the largest garden in Stapleton; however, it lacks strong community involvement, local leadership, and some basic resources.
In partnership with the garden, Forgotten Foods aims to develop it into a lasting resource for food, culture, and community in Stapleton through residential involvement.
Our Collective Meetings are run as a mini pop-up event, including an information session about the collective, a tour of the garden, new member onboarding, refreshments, and kids’ activities. Come and meet your fellow neighbors while getting involved in the garden!
Join us for Collective Meetings to make sure the garden stays for the community and is led by the community. We want to hear your ideas and visions for the garden and the collective!
To RSVP, please visit bit.ly/hsg-meet
Hill Street Garden Collective Meeting: Urban Agriculture Workshop
Hill Street Garden is the largest garden in Stapleton; however, it lacks strong community involvement, local leadership, and some basic resources.
In partnership with the garden, Forgotten Foods aims to develop it into a lasting resource for food, culture, and community in Stapleton through residential involvement.
Join us for Collective Meetings to make sure the garden stays for the community and is led by the community. Urban Agriculture meetings are hands-on, focusing on learning proper gardening tips and maintaining the Forgotten Foods community bed.
To RSVP, please visit bit.ly/hsg-meet
Hill Street Garden Collective Meeting: New Member Onboarding
Hill Street Garden is the largest garden in Stapleton; however, it lacks strong community involvement, local leadership, and some basic resources.
In partnership with the garden, Forgotten Foods aims to develop it into a lasting resource for food, culture, and community in Stapleton through residential involvement.
Join us for Collective Meetings to make sure the garden stays for the community and is led by the community. New Member Onboarding meetings focus on planning for the future of the garden through idea generation and community culture building.
To RSVP, please visit bit.ly/hsg-meet