Our First History Kitchen-Garden at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum

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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Our Largest Site —the Hunts Point Bronx Garden

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

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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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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~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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