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El Sol Brillante is a Community Garden on East 12th Street in Manhattan.

About the Garden

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Learn about our history and mission and what makes El Sol one of the most special gardens in the neighborhood.

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Upcoming Events


Come say hello at our next monthly meeting or party.

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El Sol Brillante from above! Join us for a gardeni El Sol Brillante from above! Join us for a gardening workday this Saturday (May 10 @ 12p) and our next meeting on Tuesday (May 13 @ 7p) — things are looking lush! 🌳🌱🌿🫛

(Thanks for sharing, Alexis📸)
📣 [New Date!] Our next community garden meeting 📣 [New Date!] Our next community garden meeting is Tuesday, May 13 at 7:00 PM! All are welcome, always. We’ve got ~party planning~ to do!

🌼 ICYMI: May 31 is our annual spring/summer fundraiser party! See you on 12th Street soon.
📣 MAY 31, 2025, EL SOL SPRING/SUMMER PARTY IS B 📣 MAY 31, 2025, EL SOL SPRING/SUMMER PARTY IS BACK! Because there's no better way to kick off summer than a garden party! We'll be serving up food and drinks, dancing to live music, and enjoying our community space from NOON TO MOON. It's a FUNdraiser, so tell everyone you know! ☀️🌷🪩🌿 #eastvillage #nyc #communitygarden
Early spring flowers between these April showers🌼☔️🌱
Announcing our first garden meeting of the spring Announcing our first garden meeting of the spring season! Saturday, April 5, 11 AM—all are always welcome.
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If you are hoping to become a new member this year, attending three meetings is one of our requirements. Here’s your first chance!
[NEW DATE] Got the spring cleaning bug? Come lend [NEW DATE] Got the spring cleaning bug? Come lend a hand! 🌱☘️ El Sol Brillante is BACK for our 2025 season, starting with a cleanup day Saturday, March 22, at Noon. All are welcome🌈
Come one, come all! Saturday, December 14 from 2 t Come one, come all! Saturday, December 14 from 2 to 6 pm, we’re hosting our last event of the season: a bonfire! We’ll have drinks warming (cocoa, cider, gluwein), locally-raised meat roasting, and vegetarian chili simmering. It’s sure to be a heartwarming and hand-warming time. Hope to see you there! 🍁🍂☕️
The days are shorter and the garden is brighter ~ The days are shorter and the garden is brighter ~ All are welcome at our next meeting on November 23 at noon✨🍂🪴
Another garden party in the books! Thanks to all w Another garden party in the books! Thanks to all who came out in support of El Sol—we love sharing this space with you, our community 🧡🤎💛
Saturday, Saturday, Saturday! See you there 😎 Saturday, Saturday, Saturday! See you there 😎

Poster credits:@frankievigilante 🎸🎷🥁
The banner was hung by the garden with care, in ho The banner was hung by the garden with care, in hope that our neighbors would soon be there. 🍁🍂☀️ Fall Fundraiser Party on October 19! Mark your calendars!
🍃 There's a seat open for you at our next meeti 🍃 There's a seat open for you at our next meeting 🍃 All are welcome Tuesday, October 15 at 7:00pm 🍃 Featuring scenes from our community garden meditation during the LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival 🍃
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EVENT: Poetry and prose in the Garden! This Saturd EVENT: Poetry and prose in the Garden! This Saturday, September 28th, 3 PM at El Sol Brillante.🍃🍂📝🧚‍♂️

Join a participatory writing exercise inspired by a prose or poem prompt. Sitting beside experienced writers, we’ll listen to the prompts, write whatever comes to mind, and share a few of our spontaneous creations with the group.

Here's a poem by Mary Oliver that may inspire you to join us:
"Lines Written in the Days of Growing Darkness"

Every year we have been 
witness to it: how the
world descends

into a rich mass, in order that
it may resume.
And therefore
who would cry out

to the petals on the ground
to stay, 
knowing as we must,
how the vivacity of what was is married

to the vitality of what will be?
I don't say
it's easy, but
what else will do

if the love one claims to have for the world
be true?
Today! See you soon💚🧘✨ & Happy Autumn Equ Today! See you soon💚🧘✨

& Happy Autumn Equinox to all🍁🍂🎃
🌱🧘‍♀️✨Free Loving-Kindness Meditatio 🌱🧘‍♀️✨Free Loving-Kindness Meditation on Sept. 22 @ 2✨🧘‍♀️🌱

Please join us in El Sol Brillante community garden for a 30-minute guided meditation, led by a certified meditation teacher from East Village's beloved Three Jewels Enlightenment Studio (threejewelsnyc). Seated among the plantlife, we'll focus on our breath and joy and love for all beings, using comfortable stillness and visualization techniques. It's a free event and open to all (including first-time meditators!). We will begin promptly at 2:00 PM, so please arrive a few minutes early to find your seat. We'll have benches and chairs, but you might like to have a blanket to sit on if it fills up. We hope to see you there and enjoy this beautiful moment of peace together.
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