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  • Farm Workshops
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  • Professional Development

Hands-on workshops for K-12 classes offered April-November at Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farms

City Growers’ Farm Workshops at Brooklyn Grange, the largest soil-based rooftop farms in the world, will give your students a new perspective on their city. Choose from a full menu of educational workshops that explore the intersections of health and sustainability.

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We offer virtual workshops!

You and your afterschool participants, students, or children can enjoy a tour of the farm, meet our chickens, learn about compost, and catch a glimpse inside some of our beehives.

All school year, we offer virtual class field trips for school-day farm adventures.

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Spring in the Soil – Free Outdoor After School at PS20

Our afterschool program is designed to help young people form community, become stewards of the environment and their health, and have fun while doing it!

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School-based urban agriculture-themed summer camps for elementary aged kids

Give your child an unforgettable summer experience. Summer in the Soil camps engage children entering grades 1 through 5 in gardening, cooking, green arts, STEM, and hands-on activities that inspire stewardship, celebrate good food, and foster creativity, curiosity, and friendship. Multiple locations.

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Single and multi-week workshops in your classroom or school garden all year long

Bring our farm educator to your school to facilitate hands-on lessons in your school garden, build a worm bin with your class and teach you how to maintain it, or share the wonderfully rich world of honeybees with your students. Dig deeper with school-based workshops.

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Workshop series for grades 5-8th offered April-October at the Naval Cemetery Landscape

Urban Ecology is a three-workshop program that introduce students to the concepts of native plant restoration, pollinator pathway creation, and biodiversity in our city. Empower your students to become stewards of their urban environment.

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Beekeeping training and native plant restoration program for teens

Brooklyn Bee Corps is a summer training program and internship in which local teens apprentice with an experienced beekeeper, assist with maintenance of a native plant restoration site, and visit innovative environmental endeavors in New York City.

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Annual conference for teachers, informal educators, and youth leaders

Unfortunately, City Growers is not offering an Educational Conference in 2021. Check back for our 2022 Conference, and subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated! 

The City Growers Education Conference brings educators together to share best practices in farm- and garden-based education. This annual event draws a diverse group of educators, garden and farm education nonprofits, elected officials, and leaders in the food and environmental movements.

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Pedagogical and content-based professional development workshops for teachers

Unfortunately, City Growers is not offering Professional Development workshops in 2021. Check back for updates, or subscribe to our newsletter! 

City Growers’ school- and farm-based professional development workshops increase teachers’ capacity to utilize school gardens to enhance classroom learning, and impart the knowledge necessary to facilitate a fascinating unit of study on honeybees.

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Brooklyn NY 11205

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