Monday, September 14th: Growing Chefs & Edible Estates

On September 14th from 6:00 – 8:30 PM, join Growing Chefs in Manhattan as we celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's trip past our fair city.

The evening will feature harvest activities, interpretive garden tours, and native foods cooking demonstrations with field-to-fork food education program Growing Chefs. The evening celebration will also include the premiere of "Lenape Edible Estate: Manhattan," a short video about the making of the garden and the history of eating on the island of Manhattan, as told by Eric Sanderson of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s The Mannahatta Project.

The LENAPE EDIBLE ESTATE: MANHATTAN, is a garden installation featuring native edibles and Lenape cultivars presented by Edible Estates and New York Restoration Project (NYRP) in partnership with Friends of the High Line. Planted in June by NYRP, community volunteers and members of Hudson Guild, a Chelsea community center, the opening harvest event coincides with the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Henry Hudson to the island of Manhattan. The garden provides a view back to the lives of the Lenape people, how they lived off the land on the island of Mannahatta, from the native edible plants and the mounded plantings of bean, corn and squash, also know as “three sisters.”

Located in front of the Hudson Guild at 441 West 26th Street at 10th Avenue, and serving the residents of New York City Housing Authority’s Elliott-Chelsea Houses , the garden is designed to showcase examples of four distinct zones: woodland, berry patch, flowering meadow, and “three sisters” – corn, beans, and squash.