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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…

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…

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…

A labor of love. Thank you very much for your hard work Beatrice! #Sunset #BeatriceToscano

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…

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…