NEW, Garden Kitchen Lab at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum!

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We are proud to present our first garden in Manhattan, and at such a prestigious institution; the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum is the last Dutch farmhouse in Manhattan. When the Dyckman family returned to the island from Upstate in 1784, they found the original farmhouse, the orchards, and the crops burned to the ground. It took five years…

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NEW Garden Kitchen Lab in the Bronx!

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Starting this spring, Garden Kitchen Lab is opening a new location in the Bronx, at the St. James Recreation Center in Fordham Heights. The new kitchen-garden is possible thanks to the New York Restoration Project’s generosity, which designed and assembled the raised beds. The program will host the after-school children during the school year and…

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~A Look Back

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We wanted to look back and remind ourselves of all the things we are grateful for; all the children who passed by the program, all the plants that gave us their energy, nurtured us and helped us heal, and all the people who supported us and made the program possible. NYC Parks Media Education, all…

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Dyckman Farmhouse Museum—Virtual Fall Festival

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Garden Kitchen Lab was psyched to present “Apple Madness” in partnership with the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum. Because having two apple recipes was not enough, we set ourselves to show how one food staple can yield an almost infinite amount of delicious dishes and encourage people to be resourceful and produce less waste. Dyckman, the New…

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Traveling Kitchen —Cocina Movil

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Fabiola Cáceres was proud to introduce Traveling Kitchen, a new culinary program to learn about history through a food lens for the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum. These series were about flatbreads, the origin of corn, wheat, and seeds, and how these foods traveled through time, continents, and how different cultures adopted them. Teens and adults learned…

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Growing Uptown —Recipe Cards

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To watch the video lessons accompanying these cards, please visit Growing Uptown at Dyckman Farmhouse.

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Growing Uptown —Transplanting Tips

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To follow more video lessons, please visit Dyckman Farmhouse, Growing Uptown. We do live lessons in Spanish and English all year round!

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Growing Uptown —Seed Power

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Garden Kitchen Lab is proud to be a part of Growing Uptown, a new program created in collaboration with the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum and NY Common Pantry. This initiative started in the spring of 2020 in response to the families who were affected by COVID. When the pandemic disrupted the food distribution channels, it became…

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