McCarren, Our Little Secret Garden

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…

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Our Second Garden in the Bronx!

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…

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NEW, Garden Kitchen Lab at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum!

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!

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

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

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 Móvil

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

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

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Growing Uptown —Transplanting Tips

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

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