By: GardenKitchenLab September 4, 2019January 5, 2020 garden, kitchen, St.John'sAndrewMaslowski, BeatriceToscano, DianaBaker, DianneBliffeld, FabiolaCáceres, KatiesKrops, NYCommonPantry, plantbased, PS18Leave a Comment

Broccoli, Beets, Squash, And More: Our Summer Harvest

Five gardens; four coordinators; one volunteer, and one-hundred and sixteen students. We did it! Thank you very much, Katie’s Krops for funding all our five gardens for six years now! Thank you, Beatrice Toscano, Diana Baker, Dianne Bliffeld and Andrew Maslowski for running the program in Brooklyn and the Bronx. Garden Kitchen Lab can not wait…

By: GardenKitchenLab September 4, 2019December 25, 2020 garden, kitchen, lab, McCarrenBeatriceToscano, DianaBaker, FabiolaCáceres, foodlab, FoodMedia, KatiesKrops, MediaEducation, plantbased, technologyLeave a Comment

Food Lab McCarren —a new Garden Kitchen Lab Project

Food Lab aims at using technology as a vehicle to learn about sustainability; and other cultures through food and hands-on cooking. This food-media workshop explores how we communicate through food and cooking; children make their cooking show, and teens learn how to produce and edit a TV show! Youth with no knowledge of cooking or…

By: GardenKitchenLab July 23, 2017January 5, 2020 garden, St.John's, SunsetBayLeaves, FabiolaCáceres, foraging, GardenKitchenLab, Juniper, Mugwort, plantbased, Rose, SaltMarshLeave a Comment

Garden Kitchen Lab & NYC Parks Urban Rangers

The St. John’s and Sunset Park Recreation children visited Salt Marsh this spring. The Salt Marsh Nature Center serves several vital roles in our communities, leading to wildlife education, environmental studies, and recreational activities. Garden Kitchen Lab partnered with the Urban Parks Rangers in teaching our children how to forage local wild edible plants and…

About The Program

Read our story and find out more about our cross cultural educational model that combines urban agriculture, culinary and STEAM disciplines.

Our Farms

Garden Kitchen Lab has five urban farms across two boroughs in NYC, and plans to open nine more by 2021. Browse our locations to find a program near you.

Our First History Kitchen-Garden at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum

By: GardenKitchenLab January 3, 2022January 25, 2022

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The Dyckman Farmhouse Museum garden is our first and only garden in Manhattan. At this gem garden, Fabiola Cáceres tested what other gardens will grow in 2022; different varieties of butternut squash, like Tahitian Melon Squash, Orange Butternut Squash, Charentais Melon, which she grew for flavor and its yielding results. Fabiola also planted Glass Gem…

Our Largest Site —the Hunts Point Bronx Garden

By: GardenKitchenLab January 2, 2022January 5, 2022

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This gorgeous garden was built by New York Restoration Project, a great organization building community gardens and supporting the community steward parks and gardens, promoting food sovereignty, and countering environmental and social injustice throughout the five boroughs for 25 years. NYRP built our first garden in St. John’s, Brooklyn, in 2015, and they continue to be…

Our One & Only, the St. John’s Garden!

By: GardenKitchenLab January 2, 2022January 5, 2022

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Photography @benhinder Our St. John’s garden is very special to us; it was our first, and we were able to develop the curriculum with the after-school children and with the local community support. Another critical component to our success was the support of the St. John’s Recreation Center staff. Earlier in the spring of 2021, NYC…

McCarren, Our Little Secret Garden

By: GardenKitchenLab January 2, 2022January 24, 2022

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We had a new garden built in the early spring of 2021, courtesy of NYC Parks GreenThumb. Our seedlings are part of a grant and our long relationship with Katie’s Krops, a wonderful organization that has helped us since our inception in 2014. We are grateful to both organizations and Diana Baker, the Media Education Senior Coordinator…

Our Second Garden in the Bronx!

By: GardenKitchenLab April 25, 2021January 10, 2022

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We are proud to announce; we are opening a new location at the Hunts Point Recreation Center in the Bronx!!! Our largest location yet, this space is brought to the community; thank you to the New York Restoration Project, @nyrp. We can’t wait to see the children again and what wonderful magic they create in…

NEW, Garden Kitchen Lab at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum!

By: GardenKitchenLab January 24, 2021

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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…

NEW Garden Kitchen Lab in the Bronx!

By: GardenKitchenLab January 24, 2021January 24, 2021

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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…

~A Look Back

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…

Dyckman Farmhouse Museum—Virtual Fall Festival

By: GardenKitchenLab November 29, 2020November 29, 2020

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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…

Traveling Kitchen —Cocina Movil

By: GardenKitchenLab November 29, 2020November 29, 2020

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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…