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If you come to an event & can’t find us, call Janet: (347) 724-6954
More info?  ask at freegan.info * www.freegan.info

Every Wednesday and Saturday: Freegan Bike Workshop
Learn to turn found bike parts into working bicycles and build your own bike. For more info call (727) 424-2868. Workshops are Wednesdays from 6-9pm and Saturdays from 2-7pm. On Wednesdays, a free vegan dinner will be served. Arrive at 6pm to help cook and 8pm to eat. Media are welcome on Wednesdays with appointment, but Saturdays workshops are media free.
Where? At the 123 Community Space at 123 Tompkins Ave. in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Take the G train to Myrtle-Willoughby.

Friday, July 17: Trash tour
Join us as we explore this neighborhood’s discarded goods and we salvage good food and comment on the reasons for such waste. Prepare to take home food (bring bags)! We will also be collecting food for Sunday’s Freegan Feast. Open to media with appointment.
When and Where? Meet at 9pm in front of Grocer John’s on 14th Street, btwn. 5 & 6 Aves.

Saturday, July 18: Sewing Workshop
Learn how to turn found fabrics into clothing, make and repair your own clothes. We teach and learn hand and machine sewing, patching, darning, quilting, and alterations. If you have sewing skills, please come share them! For more info call Jason: (610) 764 7587. NOT open to media.
When and Where? 3-7pm at the 123 Community Space at 123 Tompkins Ave. in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Take the G train to Myrtle-Willoughby.

Sunday, July 19: Freegan BBQ!
Come join us to prepare a delicious meal and eat together. We have a 100% freegan dinner consisting exclusively of rescued food. This month, we’ll have a freegan and vegetarian BBQ in Rockaway, Queens near the beach! Great company, great food, a great time! Open to media with appointment.
When and Where? Rockaway, Queens: for exact location RSVP (at least a day ahead please) to Janet at (347) 724-6954. Meet at 5pm to help cook and around 8pm to help eat!

Monday, July 20: Freegan Meeting and Trash Tour!
An organizational meeting to report on working group activities and discuss and decide on policies and activities. Meetings are for active Freegan.info volunteers and people interested in volunteering, and are not educational presentations or introductory discussions about freeganism. After, we will explore the area’s wasted food and other goods. The meeting and tour are NOT open to media.
When and Where? Meet at 7:30pm at the Whole Foods on Houston & Christie, and for the tour meet us outside the store at 9:30 (on the southwest corner of Houston and Christie).

Thursday, July 30: Freegavaganza
You can’t be everywhere at once… or can you? Instead of a single trash tour, we scatter in groups of two, three or more to various locations all of the city and return to display all of our findings and share them among ourselves and any passers-by who want them. For experienced and new dumpster divers alike! If you are experienced and are inconvenienced by meeting first, do your own dumpster dive and come to the after-gathering to display and share your findings.
When and Where? If you are new or willing to meet first to help lead your own trashtour, come at 8:30pm to Union Square North, on 17th St. across from the Barnes & Noble. Try to be prompt as we will only meet briefly to organize buddies and locations. We all meet again at 10:45pm at Union Square Sout on 14th Street on the steps across from Whole Foods. Call Janet for details: (347) 724-6954.

Sunday, July 25: Really Really Free Market
Come give away your stuff and find treasures in others’ discards. Freegans cater this event with delicious food. Skills and services offered. Great people, music, fun. Sponsored by In Our Hearts. For more information, email:  inourhearts at gmail.com
When and Where? 3-7pm at Judson Memorial Church at 55 Washington Square South.

Ongoing Sustainable and Freegan Events

Composting (NEW PARK SLOPE DROP-OFF SITE)
Lower East Side Ecology Center accepts organic material for composting (fruit and vegetable peelings, cut flowers and similar organic material). LESEC has drop-off bins at the Union Square Greenmarket (Mon, Wed, Fri, & Sat. from 8am-5pm), or drop off at the center on E. 7th St. btwn. Aves. B & C any time through the opening in the gate. For more info see www.lesecologycenter.org
The W. 181st St. Beautification Project has compost drop-off at the garden at 880 W. 181st St. in the Bronx.
6/15 Green is a public compost site where the general public is invited and encouraged to add compostables during open hours from April through October: Tuesdays 3-5pm, Thursdays 6-8pm, Saturdays 10am-2pm, and Sundays 4-8pm, or whenever the gate is open. At the Green Community Garden at 6th Avenue & 15th Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Computer and Electronics Recycling
Per Scholas is a recycling facility in Hunts Point that allows individuals to drop off residential computer & electronic equipment. They accept equipment Mon. to Fri. 9am-4pm at 1575 Bronx River Ave. in the Bronx. For more information, see www.perscholas.org

Plastics Recycling
Park Slope Food Co-op accepts many plastics for recycling that are NOT collected by the city. (NEW guidelines!) They accept: #1 and #6 transparent plastics (but NOT bottles, which NYC recycles), #5 plastics (remove any paper labels), and clear plastic film only. All plastics must be CLEAN AND DRY. They’re open every month on the 2nd Sat, 10am-2pm; the 3rd Thurs, 7pm-9pm; & the last Sun, 10am-2pm. The co-op is at 782 Union St. (btwn. 6th & 7th Aves.) in Park Slope. See: www.foodcoop.com/go.php?id=112
Whole Foods now accepts #5 plastics and Brita filters (bagged after being allowed to dry out for 3 days) at their stores at Union Square, Columbus Circle, Greenwhich St. and Houston St. Many of their stores also accept household batteries for recycling.

Weekly Bike Repair Workshops by Times Up
Times Up! bike repair workshops are now in two locations! See www.times-up.org for more info.
Manhattan workshops are in the basement of ABC No Rio, at 156 Rivington St. in the Lower East Side.
Women & Trans Bicycle Repair Night: Every Mon, 6:30pm. No previous experience required.
1st Sunday- Basics for Beginners
2nd Sunday- Brakes and Gears
3rd Sunday- Cups, Cones, and Bearings
th Sunday- Wheels and Spokes
Bike Repair Workshops: Every Tuesday, 6:30pm. Come learn how to fix bikes, do simple maintenance and tune-ups at the bike mechanic skill share.
1st Sunday- Basics for Beginners
2nd Sunday- Brakes and Gears
3rd Sunday- Cups, Cones, and Bearings
4th Sunday- Wheels and Spokes
Fix Your Bike Workshop: Every Thursday, 6:30pm. Share skills and fix up your own bike.
Brooklyn workshops are at the new Times Up Brooklyn space at 99 South 6th Street, off Bedford Avenue
Fix Your Bike Workshop: Every Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Share skills and fix up your own bike.
Bike Repair Workshops: Every Sunday, Lessons from 2-4 p.m., Open Workshop from 4-6 p.m.
1st Sunday- Basics for Beginners
2nd Sunday- Brakes and Gears
3rd Sunday- Cups, Cones, and Bearings
4th Sunday- Wheels and Spokes

Textile Recycling
Of course, the best thing to do with clothes and other textiles is to reuse them! BUT, if you have scraps that can’t be used even one more time, there is textile recycling:
Fridays, 8am-2pm at the 97th St. Greenmarket, 97th & Columbus;
Saturdays, 8am-4pm at the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket in Brooklyn;
Saturdays and Mondays, 8am-6pm at the Union Square Greenmarket;
and Sundays, 8am-4pm at the Tompkins Square Greenmarket, E. 7th St. & Ave. A.

Food Not Bombs
Food Not Bombs in Manhattan offers a vegetarian meal share (using donated food that would otherwise be wasted) Sundays at 3:30pm in Tompkins Square Park. Help cook at ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington St. btwn. Clinton & Suffolk at 1pm. More info:  fnb at abcnorio.org or (212) 254-3697 ext.395
Brooklyn Food Not Bombs prepares food from 12-3pm on Saturdays at the 123 Community Space in Brooklyn (123 Tompkins, G train to Myrtle-Willoughby) and serves at 3pm just outside Von King/Tompkins Park (NW corner of Lafayette Ave. & Marcy Ave.). More info:  brooklynfnb at gmail.com
Bushwick Food Not Bombs prepares food Thursdays at 10:30am at Surreal Estate, 1st floor of 15 Thames St. (L to Morgan) and serves at 1pm at Maria Hernandez Park, formerly Bushwick Park, at Knickerbocker Ave. & Starr St. in Brooklyn. For more info email  fnbbushwick at gmail.com or call (972) 743-5669.

Wild Food Tours
“Wildman” Steve Brill holds tours where you can learn to find wild growing plants for food and medicine. The fee is $12 ($6 for children) sliding scale, but no one is turned away for lack of funds. Tours this month in NYC are 7/11 in Central Park; 7/18 in Prospect Park, Brooklyn; 7/19 in Inwood Hill Park; 7/25 in Central Park. See details and reserve a spot at www.wildmanstevebrill.com or call (914) 835-2153.

Grub Community Building Meal
1st & 3rd Sunday every month. A mostly freegan dinner for strangers and co-conspirators in a relaxed environment. There is no charge but donations are requested. At Rubulad, 338 Flushing Ave. (btwn. Classon & Taaffe) in Brooklyn. Doors at 6:30pm; dinner at 7. www.suckapants.com/grub.html