Sustain it!
This year’s Making Brooklyn Bloom at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Saturday — enthusiastically titled “Edible NYC: Green it! Grow it! Eat it!” — was organized with fire escape gardeners, locavores and food activists in mind. Mark Winne, author of Closing the Food Gap, is part of a panel on building a healthy food system, and attendees can choose from 15 how-to workshops like planting windowboxes, raising chickens in the city, and growing herbs year-round. They fill up quickly, so get there in time for the 10 am sign up, with the flyer on this site to get in for free: bbg.org.

Film Festivals
Desmond and the Swamp Barbarian Tramp is one of the few films in the immensely popular BAM Kids Film Festival that have not yet sold out. Tickets for the all-ages concerts went quickly too, but there are newly added shows for teen rockers Care Bears on Fire, and the pre-teen punks, Tiny Masters of Today.
At BAMcinematek, a rare U.S. retrospective of the literary-minded, 100-year-old Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira opens on Friday, and Monday, a film series curated by veteran Voice film critic J. Hoberman begins with Eraserhead. bam.org

New Threads
A dozen local indie designers on Etsy.com, like Joanne Tracey and Kimm Alfonso (both in last year’s Sampler), are gathering in Park Slope this Saturday from 10-5 for the Brooklyn Home Show to sell handmade wares like jewelry and Alfonso’s screen printed tees. Details here.
For old-school DIYers, the Quilter’s Guild of Brooklyn is holding its annual Quilt Show this weekend, featuring over 100 member-made quilts, raffles, demos, and vendors. quiltbrooklyn.org
And to trade old threads for new ones, the Greenpoint Church of the Messiah is hosting a clothing swap Sunday at 7 pm. $5 admission. messiahbrooklyn.org

Historic Hoods
The Historic Districts Council holds its annual preservation conference at the New School this Saturday, with a few Brooklynites on panels like “Surviving the Building Boom” and one Greenpoint/Williamsburg tour on Sunday of the new construction surrounding McCarren Park. Registration and schedule info at hdc.org.

Green Arts
“Displacement,” a multi-media exhibition inaugurating the new CPR-Center for Performance Research on the ground floor of Greenbelt, opens at 6:30 on Saturday, with performances by Jonah Bokaer (the choreographer from our What’s it Like in Bushwick? Q&A) and others at 8:30. The exhibit, open weekends from noon to 6, runs through March 30. 361 Manhattan Ave., Williamsburg, greenbeltbrooklyn.com

Bullseye
Greenpointers blogger Justine Carroll is organizing a dart league in the Greenpoint/WB area. If you’re a bar who’d like to participate, or you’ve got good aim, get in touch: greenpointers.blogspot.com.

UPDATED LISTINGS:

The Fort Greene/Clinton Hill Food Coop — still a concept, but getting closer to reality — is meeting tonight, March 6 at 7 pm at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, 85 South Oxford St., lapcbrooklyn.org.

JakeWalk — the new wine, cocktail and cheese bar from Michele Pravda and Patrick Watson, the couple behind Stinky BKLYN and Smith and Vine — opens on Friday at 282 Smith St. in Carroll Gardens. Hours are Mon. - Thurs., 4 pm-2 am, Fri. 4 pm-4 am, Sat. from 2 pm-4 am, and Sunday from 2 pm-2 am. 347-599-0294. no site yet.

And BB’s friends, the ultra-talented Lascivious Biddies, play the Brooklyn Public Library’s Dweck Center on Saturday night at 7 pm. Tickets are $10. brooklynpubliclibrary.org

The 7th annual NYC Juggling Fest takes over Pratt Friday and Saturday, then moves to Manhattan with the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus at the Zipper Factory. Details here: jugglenyc.com

Photo of woman holding peppers by Ellen Kirby, courtesy Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Photo of Jonah Bokaer by Geoff Smith.
Sent by Alia and Nicole