396K celebrated the opening of their new STEM lab at the 181 site with a ribbon cutting, speeches and a student-led tour. The new space is home to a hamster, a tortoise, fish and some seedlings that were newly planted. Great work, everyone!
The students in Mr. Tyler’s class at 77K started a school farm stand that is so popular they can barely keep up with demand! This means that the students have to keep planting so that there are always more fresh greens for the community. Here they are on a recent Monday planting more seeds and taking care of their classroom grow towers.
Horticulture students at 811Q have been busy starting their seeds and getting the tower gardens up and running. Mr. Dean and the students hope you enjoy their new aeroponics webpage with crop info and pictures of the students hard at work. Great job, 811Q!
Who knew there are kiwis growing in Brooklyn?! See if you can spot them in the photo…
Teachers from this year’s Garden Partnership Program kicked off the year with professional learning sessions at their respective gardens. Check out some photos of learning in action at NYBG (below) and BBG (in the post above) all about this year’s theme, Plants We Eat.
811X wasted no time getting plants growing in the different systems in their brand new hydroponics lab. Check out their towers, vine crop and NFT systems with some very happy looking plants! Shout out to Ms. Colon and the whole 811X Horticulture team.
Look at this beauty spotted during our teacher workshop at NYBG in the Bronx. Can you identify which type of tree it is?
Thank you, Christopher D., for sharing!
Students from 721M and some of the district coaches took the ferry to the Governor’s Island Urban Farm and Teaching Garden to make connections between the food the students grow in their hydroponic grow tower for the café and the way that food is produced on a farm. They planted beans, tasted strawberries straight from the patch, and got to know some of the worms that were busy composting our food scraps.
When a terrarium is overcrowded, the plants cannot grow to their full potential. Best practice is to repot the plants into new bigger containers. This terrarium was glass, so we had to use a hammer to break the glass and remove the plants!
Special soil for cacti and succulent plants (called Cactus Mix) is not too dense, so the water can drain out and the roots do not drown.
We carefully removed the glass bits that were stuck in the roots and soil before repotting.
D75 Plant Learn Grow 