"When children learn to garden it is a skill that stays with them for life, something they will use and fall back on as they grow up."
— From a Royal Horticultural Society report on teaching children to garden in schools.
The New York Botanical Garden is a museum of plants, an educational institution, and a scientific research organization. Founded in 1891 & now a National Historic Landmark, it is one of the greatest botanical gardens in the world. http://www.nybg.org/
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October 8, 2011
September 30, 2011
We love being a part of this Bronx school garden project at The New School for Leadership and the Arts, MS244, along with New York Cares and Saint Barnabas Hospital’s Teen Health Center. Read all about it on the Riverdale Press.
August 8, 2011
"But the Bronx now boasts nearly 150 such sites, and about 80% produce food, according to Ursula Chanse, the director of Bronx Green-Up, a program run by the New York Botanical Garden."
— The Bronx now has only 15 fewer community and school gardens and farms than Manhattan. We have long felt that it’s time for the rest of New York City to recognize the Bronx as a vital part of the local food web. It seems that the Wall Street Journal agrees with us!
July 5, 2011
Super cool little post over on the Smithsonian Institution curatorial blog about the history of urban community and school gardens. The photo above shows Dewitt Clinton Park in New York City in 1909.
June 27, 2011
A Worthy Event: Dining Out for School Gardens
Satisfy your appetite while helping support an appetite for learning.
Between June 24 – 30, prominent NYC restaurants are generously donating a percentage of menu items to Grow to Learn.
GrowNYC is the proud co-founder of Grow to Learn NYC: Citywide School Gardens Initiative, a public-private partnership with the Mayor’s Fund to Advance NYC
June 13, 2011
Freshly planted flowers stolen from Franklin Elementary garden
Another day, another theft, this time from a school garden in Montana, where a thief plundered a newly planted perennial garden of donated plants.
The school’s vegetable garden went unharmed in the theft, but as Hock put it - “Who would want to take vegetables?” The answer, he said - “No one.”
Sadly, this statement is untrue.
April 29, 2011
Free Seeds Available: School Gardens and Non-Profits with Gardening Programs Invited to Apply
The good folks at the Poughkeepsie Farm Project and the Hudson Valley Seed Library are making 1,000 seed packets available to Hudson Valley schools and non-profits. Apply here.
April 27, 2011
Dutch dig big society
Robin Lane Fox offers up Holland as a model for how urban, volunteer-based gardens can become successfully integrated into the patchwork of modern society.
April 23, 2011
Rooftop ‘farm’ will soon be sprouting atop three schools
Plans are coming together for a new rooftop school garden that will grow on the roof of a building that houses three separate schools—P.S. 64, the Tompkins Square Middle School and the Earth School—in Manhattan’s East Village. The project has received city and state funds to help it reach fruition, and will hopefully begin to be built this summer.
April 21, 2011
The city is getting greener thanks to grants just awarded to 29 schools to create garden classrooms.
“Our goal is to have a garden or access to a garden in every public school in the city,” said Marcel Van Ooyen, director of GrowNYC, which awarded the grants with the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City.
The winning schools, spread throughout the five boroughs, won up to $2,000 each to create or expand a school garden.
April 17, 2011
Urban Farm Sprouts In Battery Park
A very hearty welcome to New York City’s newest urban farm!
April 7, 2011
Alice Waters: Eat Local
Chef and school gardens advocate Alice Waters on why you should eat locally this Earth Day.
April 6, 2011
A look at how school gardens have been integrated into the Denver Public School system, even to the point of taking the vegetables from seed to table!
March 30, 2011
Moss Point kids use "green thumbs" to prevent runoff pollution
Students in Mississippi recently helped build “rain gardens” that help clean rainwater before it makes its way into the water system. Could rain gardens be the next step in schoolyard gardens?
March 22, 2011
"I remember my niece, when she was first born, and the great irony of her learning how to walk by holding onto tomato plants and how to count with cherry tomatoes. When a kid grows up that way and is involved with seeing something grow and seeing something die and seeing something be reused, it’s a different kind of upbringing."
— Jake Gyllenhaal, Edible Schoolyard spokesman and school garden evangelist
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Rosemary (in NYBG pot) and friend
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Love you, Mom <3
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Happy National Public Gardens Day! A female carpenter bee visiting the pea vines yesterday. She’s California’s largest bee.
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HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY
This Mother’s Day don’t just go local—go native: Fill your weekend with flowers and garden parties at the city’s botanical...
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Be the change you want to see in the world.
-Gandhi
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Lovely tree peonies at the NY Botanical Garden
