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- Farmers & Producers
- Greenmarket
Greenmarket Self-Guided Tour
This guide is designed to help adults - teachers or caregivers - who are interested in providing an educational experience for children at one of GrowNYC’s neighborhood Greenmarkets. Please read on for rules, activity ideas, and fun facts that you can share with...
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- Gardening
School Gardens Handbook
This GrowNYC School Gardens Handbook is a compilation of 10+ years of experience working with over 1K schools in all five boroughs. We’ve distilled best practices, resources, technical considerations, and more into one place. It is meant to be a starting point,...
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- Gardening
A Year in the Life of a School Garden
Maintaining a school garden isn’t as simple as it looks; multiple facets are involved and tasks are not always linear. In this guide we detail those garden tasks for each month and go behind the scenes with garden committee meetings, budgeting, events, fundraising,...
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- Gardening
Indoor Seeding Starting Guide
Seed starting is the process of sowing seeds indoors during the late winter or early spring, weeks before transplanting outdoors in the warmer spring temperatures. Use this handbook to learn the process for starting seeds indoors, the necessary supplies, the science...
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- Gardening
Seeds to Success: How to Create a School Garden Program
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to: *Engage a garden committee and craft a mission statement *Integrate gardening into the curriculum across grade levels *Plan and design a garden that fits your school’s needs and space *Secure resources and establish partnerships for long-term sustainability *Create a plan of...
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- Greenmarket
Greenmarket Virtual Tour
Take a virtual tour of GrowNYC's Union Square Greenmarket. In this video students in Kindergarten through Second Grade will be introduced to the farmers markets in NYC, the farmers responsible for producing and selling the food that is available in the markets in as well as the seasonal changes in food...
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