City Parks Foundation is proud to have the “Green Girls” from the Green Girls Summer Institute (a CPF education program) guest blog for us. Sewage in the City: Greenpoint, BR at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant 7/12/2011 Authors: Shahara Jordan and Xiomara Williams On the second day of the Green Girls Summer Institute, we [...]
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23 Sep
Learning Gardens on a Worldly Scale
The environmental education idea is simple: build a communal garden, combine it with a series of wonderful lessons, and then invite community members—schools, senior and day care centers, families, and organizations—to work on their gardens and cultivate valuable benefits. We serve over 2,850 community members, children, and teachers through school, out-of-school and summer programs. The [...]
1 Sep
Hook Productions Create a Green Map of Red Hook
The sun was beating down on the pavement in Long Island City one summer afternoon, as 24 Brooklyn teens straddled their bikes, ready to take off down the proposed Brooklyn Greenway, a 14 mile route down through Brooklyn. On another such day, the group took to the waters, with kayaks in Valentino Pier in Red [...]
20 Aug
Learning Garden Interns Talk About Their Summer
Learning Gardens is a program of CityParks Education, serving over 2,850 community members, children, and teachers through school, out-of-school and summer programs. The environmental education idea is simple: build a communal garden, combine it with a series of wonderful lessons, and then invite community members to work on their gardens and cultivate valuable benefits. Below [...]
13 Aug
CityParks Learning Garden: Bushwick, Bklyn
“Some of us from Hook & Smith Productions sent a crew to Umoja Garden, a City Parks Founation Learning Garden, in Bushwick, Brooklyn to create a documentary portrait. The crew members were myself, Dimitri Brown, Matthew Pine, Bekere Grandison, Christian Pimentel and Amanda Torres. We got footage of the many types of vegetable and plants. [...]
3 Aug
Green Girls Summer Institute: Recap
Green Girls Summer Institute 2009 terminó. La ultima semana fue tan éxitoso como las semanas anteriores. La tercera semana incluyó un viaje por el río Bronx, y visitas a East New York Farms en Brooklyn, el Zoo en Central Park en Manhattan, y Forest Park en Queens. Las chicas pudieron ver el trabajo del Bronx [...]
3 Aug
Green Girls Summer Institute: Recap
The Green Girls Summer Institute 2009 has ended. The final week was just as successful as the preceding two. Week three consisted of a canoe trip down the Bronx River, and visits to East New York Farms in Brooklyn, Manhattan’s Central Park Zoo, and Forest Park in Queens. The girls were able to see the [...]
29 Jul
Green Girls Semana Dos!
La segunda semana ha llegado a su fin y fue tan lleno de eventos como la primera. La semana empezó en Queens donde las chicas visitaron a Socrates Scuplture Park. Allá ellas trabajaron con una artista local para hacer canastas de viejos envases de yogur y varios tipos de papeles reciclados. ¡Más tarde ellas visitaron [...]
29 Jul
Green Girls Week Two!
Week two of the Green Girls Summer Institute comes to a close, and it was just as eventful as week one. The week started off in Queens where the girls visited Socrates Sculpture Park. Here the girls worked with a local artist to make baskets out of old yogurt containers and various types of recycled [...]
24 Jul
Community Garden Programs in your Neighborhood!
Through the first three weeks of July, hundreds of children and families have visited our Learning Gardens in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx, learning about the life in the garden as they plant, play and enjoy the experience of getting their hands dirty. At Grove Hill Garden in the Bronx, children have munched on mint [...]
