Gotham helps Wishing Well grow

August 10, 2011
Posted in Community Gardens | Tagged bronx

Our Learn It, Grow It, Eat It program, recently received ABC7 coverage, spotlighting their work growing food at Wishing Well Community Garden.

The ABC crew filmed our LGE summer interns on a day that our friends from Gotham Bar & Grill had dropped in to help with a day of work in the garden, and to share their culinary expertise in cooking some of the produce our teens have been growing this summer. Gotham volunteers helped prepare the garden site in the Spring, so harvesting the fruits of their earlier work was fitting.

Congratulations to our summer interns, and many thanks to Gotham Bar and Grill, who have been big supporters of the Learn It, Grow It, Eat It program.

Learn It, Grow It, Eat It students in the garden and at market

October 20, 2010

We started our Learn It, Grow It, Eat It (LGE) program in 2005 as a collaboration between our community garden and environmental education programs. LGE students, from four high schools in the Bronx and one in Manhattan, take part in a three-part program: growing food in local community gardens; receiving nutrition education, which they then use to perform health-related outreach activities in their schools and neighborhoods; and operating a Youthmarket community farm stand where they sell the food they grow. Today was the second to last day at their Youthmarket, but the market was still full of produce from their garden. The last market day of the season is next Wednesday, October 27th, at Boston Road and 169th St from 10 AM to 2:30 PM. Take a look at some photos from their garden at Wishing Well Community Garden and from their Youthmarket.

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