Fall Harvest Festival brings country life to Brooklyn
Canine Costume Contest part of action
If you walked into the Narrows Botanical Gardens in Bay Ridge on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 12, you might have thought you had left Brooklyn behind for a day to travel to the country. The Fall Harvest Festival was in full swing, turning the gardens into a giant pumpkin patch and filling the air with the sounds of country music.
The Narrows Botanical Gardens, an organization made up of volunteers who take care of the land located in Shore Road Park near the 69th Street Pier, holds a fall harvest festival every year to celebrate autumn. The land that is looked after by the volunteers is also called Narrows Botanical Gardens.
The festival had something for everyone: a pumpkin patch, an arts and crafts table at which kids could decorate their own pumpkins, raffles, bake sales, tables at which handmade jewelry and pocketbooks were sold, and country music.
The biggest draw of the afternoon was the annual Canine Costume Contest, in which dog owners dress up their pet pooches as football players, tacos, kings, queens, even Cabbage Patch dolls, all for the chance to win prizes.