Seasonal & Holidays

Harlem Park To Host Pumpkin Giveaway This Weekend

Here's how to get free herbs, squashes and pumpkins on Saturday without visiting a pumpkin patch.

Here's how to get your hands on a free pumpkin this weekend.
Here's how to get your hands on a free pumpkin this weekend. (Autumn Johnson/Patch)

HARLEM, NY — This Saturday, New Yorkers can get their hands on some festive fall decor at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park.

The Horticultural Society of New York on Saturday will offer up free garden herbs, squashes and pumpkins at the park's greenhouse.

The giveaway will last from 10 a.m. to noon, or until supplies last. Masks and social distancing will be required.

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The giveaway is part of A Greener NYC Initiative and made possible with help from The Burpee Foundation, City Parks Foundation (Green Relief Fund), Consolidated Edison of New York, Inc., Farm Credit East, The Joseph & Laura Wortman Foundation, Tiger Baron Foundation, West Harlem Development Corporation, and allocations from New York City’s Councilmember Mark Levine and Councilmember Bill Perkins.

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