Hawley-Green
Cultivating Community Garden

2026 Calendar of events coming soon!!

2025 atHawley-Green Cultivating Community Garden

Events in the Garden:

May:
25th: Memorial Day Cookout

June:
TBA: Meet The Candidates event
20th: Juneteenth/Father's Day Cookout (Saturday)

July:
4th: Independence Day Cookout
TBA: Know Your Representatives

August:
TBA: Urban Ag Tour
TBA: Meet the Candidates

September:
7th: Labor Day Cookout
TBA: Meet The Candidates

October:
12th: Indigenous Peoples' Day Cookout
31st: Halloween Cookout & Trick Or Treating

In Door Events:

November:
Get out the Vote!
Thanksgiving Potluck

December:
Winter Holiday Potluck

Dates Pending:
Meet the Candidates
Know Your Reps
Talent Show
Games in the Garden
CPR/Narcan Training
2026 Urban Ag Tour

Hawley-Green Cultivating Community Garden FAQ

Who: This garden is a partnership between Southern Charm Property Maintenance, the Greater Syracuse Landbank, Syracuse Grows, and Hopeprint. Thank you to our Sponsors: Hawley Market, Dominick's Meat Market, Kairos Cafe, Pyramid Halal Market, Spoon & Chopsticks, Nice Biscuit, DiLauro's, Network System Consultants, Havey's Garden, and DVC Games!

What: The Hawley-Green Cultivating Community Garden is part of the Greater Syracuse Landbank Green Lots Program, a member garden of Syracuse Grows, and part of the Nurturing Neighborhoods Community Gardens on the Northside.

Where: 618 Hawley, Syracuse, NY, 13208

When: Anyone is welcome to come hang out in the garden after sunrise and before sunset. For liability reasons if you go into the garden before sunrise or after sunset you do so at your own risk. Thank you. There are typically volunteers in the garden at least once a week to plant, water, weed, mow, etc. If you'd like to get in on that fun, use the contact options below to reach out!

Why: Community Gardens provide not only food for neighborhoods but opportunities for neighbors to connect with each other!

I'd like to grill in the garden - how do I get permission to do that?: Use the contact info below to reach out. In order to grill in the garden you need to make sure you have at least one(1) five-gallon container of water (which we can provide) and a hand wash station (which we can also provide).

2025 Events

Neighbors helped with an Earth Day Clean Up, John built new Hugel form planters and compost bins. Neighborhood kids helped with planting and tending, and neighbors joined us for several potlucks and cookouts in the garden - Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Fathers Day, and more - Halloween was awfully wet but we still distributed a lot of canned goods and shelf stable foods to those who stopped by!

Memorial Day

Juneteenth

Fathers Day

Music in the Garden

2024 Events

2024 was the Cultivating Community's first year - there were connections made, planters built, and lessons learned! See pictures from our first year below.

Art in the Garden

Our art in the garden series (sponsored by a grant from CNY Arts) even won us 2nd place for Creative Learning Workshops in the Syracuse.com Readers' Choice Awards!