Garden steward Alejandra Delfín did exceptional work caring for the Hunts Point garden. Delfín led a fantastic volunteer team and created partnerships with the Graham Windham organization, bringing us ninety children this year. Delfin also partnered with the St. Ignatius school; the school’s teenagers came to the garden to volunteer in exchange for the school’s…
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Garden Kitchen Lab had an incredible year at our annual collaboration with Camp Dyckman. We had to provide the garden’s harvest, growing experience, kitchen supplies, and ingredients. Dyckman brings in the children. A perfect collab! This year, Director of Education Fabiola Cáceres added a new crop: Purple West African yam from Ghana, one of the…
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Thank you, Linda, for your beautiful work tending the garden; we would not have had a Garden Kitchen Lab program without all your help! Alejandra and Carmen, a million thanks for your fantastic work as educators this year; St. John’s is very dear to Garden Kitchen Lab; our first garden opened in 2014, and it…
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A labor of love. Thank you very much for your hard work Beatrice! #Sunset #BeatriceToscano
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Join us and 300 children in ensuring that our weekly donation tables are stocked with fruit, vegetables and herbs for community members in need. This year, the Garden Kitchen Lab harvest was plentiful. We were able to extend our gardening staff’s hours beyond the regular class time so they could tend to the gardens more…
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The 2022 growing season is coming to a close and the smiling faces of children pulling up the last beets and harvesting winter squash remind us of how different this year has been from the last. After two years of curtailed programming during the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s been wonderful to be fully in-person once again…
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—March 2022 Dear Friend of Garden Kitchen Lab, We’re celebrating the first days of spring and standing in awe of the beauty of nature as it awakens. As we prepare the gardens to welcome students next month, we wanted to acknowledge all that you have helped us accomplish over the past years and share an…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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