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Environmental Education
July 08, 2014 A Day in the Life: A Grow to Learn School Garden tour
Grow to Learn celebrated the end of the 2013-14 school year with a tour of four school gardens in Harlem and the Bronx. Since launching in February 2011, 438 schools have joined Grow to Learn, making them eligible for garden grant funding, training and materials...
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Greenmarket
July 07, 2014 Health Bucks are Back!
From now until November, while supplies last, for every $5 you spend with your EBT card at one of our Greenmarkets, you will receive a $2 Health Bucks coupon good for purchasing fresh fruits and vegetables in the market.The Health Bucks initiative was developed by...
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Community Gardens
July 05, 2014 Governors Island Teaching Garden is Open
GrowNYC is excited to announce the opening of a brand new urban farm on Governors Island! Governors Island Teaching Garden, which was created as a result of the combined efforts of GrowNYC and the Trust for Governors Island, is an 8,000 square foot urban farm that...
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Recycling
June 16, 2014 GrowNYC and Sierra Club Puerto Rico Team Up to “Recicla Boricua” at Puerto Rican Day Parade
Over 100 bags of recyclable materials were collected by volunteers. The highly celebrated National Puerto Rican Day Parade that descended upon Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue on Sunday, June 8 was red and white and green all over. A plan to educate participants about waste...
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Recycling
June 05, 2014 Recycling at Greenmarkets as Bountiful as the Produce
GrowNYC Greenmarkets are opening for the season throughout the city, bringing with them not only a bounty of fresh regional products, but also expanding weekly opportunities for New Yorkers to recycle textiles and compost food scraps. In 2007, GrowNYC’s newly-created Office of Recycling Outreach and Education...
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GrowNYC
May 30, 2014 Grow to Learn NYC Congratulates Carson Daly and the Today Show for “shining a light” on the importance of school gardens
A statement by Marcel Van Ooyen Executive Director, GrowNYC I want to personally congratulate Carson Daly of the Today Show for supporting our efforts to build a garden in every New York City School. Since its launch in February 2011, Grow to Learn NYC has been...
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