Honeybee Education
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Insect Investigators
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Farm Explore
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Growing Urban Farmers
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Rainbow On Your Plate
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Not-So-Lazy Days of Summer
Compost Corps and Youth Tillers have been hard at work at our Long Island City farm! These teen interns have been busy harvesting, weeding, prepping beds for planting, and teaching younger students and peers about urban agriculture, sustainability, and ecology up on Brooklyn Grange. These summer internship programs are exciting new collaborations with Build It Green!NYC and Green…
Magnificent May
Life on the farms is verdant and lively! The cold frames and greenhouses are brimming with seedlings. We’ve introduced City Growers bee hives for educational programming and honey-making. Our chickens–old and new–are settling back into their hen house in Queens, which means that the tenderfoot “Beaker” (a Japanese Silky) is no longer at the bottom of the…
What’s seasonal, NYC?
Eating seasonally is a great way to ensure that food is fresh, local, and delicious. Since the ever-changing seasons also promise bountiful diversity, eating seasonally is also a great way to ensure that a rainbow of veggies (and nutrients!) end up nourishing our bodies. A Japanese study proves that spinach grown in cool weather– spring…
Compost love
Just like healthy kids require healthy food, healthy plants require healthy soil. After hauling 1.2 million pounds(!) of soil up to the roof for Brooklyn Grange’s construction, keeping that soil healthy and nutritious is a #1 priority. As plants slurp up water and nutrients from the soil through their roots, the soil needs to be…