Hello everyone! Things have been very busy as we prepare for Spring planting! Check out these seedlings that are growing right now. Can you guess what they are? Now is a great time to start planting your Spring and Summer outdoor gardens, and PLG would love to see what you’ve been working on! Send in your photos and we will share them here.
Hello everyone!
Last night I was at a workshop on “Rainwater Collection and Green Infrastructure” at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The workshop was very informative and taught me a lot interesting, practical, and new things to help “green” NYC.
The workshop was put on by Grow NYC and the BBG. Both of these organizations have many different free workshops after school and in the evening to help people in education and in other fields learn more about sustainable living. Below is a list of various workshops and events compiled from various areas.
March
Grow to Learn Grant Writing & Garden Planning Workshop
Wednesday, March 6th 4:30pm-7:00pm
Need help applying for a Grow to Learn Mini-Grant? Attend a grant-writing and garden design workshop! We will walk you through the application and garden design process and help answer any individual questions you may have. RSVP required.
Cost: Free
RSVP HERE
Teacher Open House: Snug Harbor Cultural Center
Friday, March 8th, 3:00pm-5:00pm
Looking for new and interesting ways to introduce your students to environmental sustainability? Attend the NYC Compost Project on Staten Island Teacher Open House! You will learn about composting activities that can be incorporated into a variety of curricula.
Host Organization: Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
Location: 914 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY
Cost: Free
Contact: compost@snug-harbor.org or 718.425.3558
We’re just getting started with our indoor- and outdoor school gardens, but we hope to have this many greens by the spring!
The staff and students at P 993 Q @ Frank Sinatra High School came up with this very cool design for their planters. As you know, the bottoms of the planters need to be protected from light so that the plants don’t grow from the bottom. We love it!
Check out these photos from our teacher workshop at the Museum of Natural History this week. Greg showed us how to construct a window farm and then the teachers tried. Looks like they had fun!
Here are 2 logos designed by some of our PLG friends. Thank you, friends!
Do you have any talented artists at your school that would like to design the art for your window farms? We would love to see it! Take a picture or sent it to us and we will post it here on the website.
What does your school lunch look like? Vote for the Best and Worst school lunch photos here!
Then… post a photo of YOUR school lunch here!
D 75 Needs You!
Welcome to D 75 Plant Learn Grow, a new community of New York City Schools that are going green, literally. We will be constructing urban window farms, forming partnerships with our local community gardens, and teaching others how to do it! We will be building, designing, observing, measuring, writing, and documenting our progress as we go. Please stop by to see photos of our window gardens in their beginning stages and as they progress throughout the year!
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