A Brooklyn community garden has been closed since last month because of two pot-growing violations and its caretaker is asking when it will reopen.
The Green Gems Community Garden on Fountain Avenue near Glenmore Avenue in East New York has been closed since May 31.
The Parks Department says it found marijuana growing inside the garden in 2014 and again in 2015.
Caretaker James McCrae says the first violation was for a two-foot high marijuana plant no one knew about.
He says the second violation was for two other plants and that the person responsible was banned from the garden.
"It feels like you've been locked out of your own house, and this is what it makes me feel like in this yard — that I no longer live here, something that I took 23 years this month to build, and now I can't even go inside."
McCrae says the garden was founded in 1994.
The Parks Department says it will hold a public meeting in the near future to select new community members to maintain the space.