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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Educational Programs’ Category
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 [...]
13 Aug
Hook & Smith Productions Spend a Day with the Green Girls
“On a lovely summer day, we visited the Green Girls program in Jamaica, Queens so we could interview one of the ladies that run the program. At first we were lost, since the area was compacted with dozens of plants and trees. We were escorted to this beautiful pond in this deep wooded place where [...]
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. [...]
