GrowNYC Helps Create an Urban Farm at Wagner Middle School in Manhattan

GrowNYC Helps Create an Urban Farm at Wagner Middle School in Manhattan

GrowNYC recently lent a green thumb to Wagner Middle School on the Upper East Side. The non-profit banded together with Wagner students, teachers, parents and local volunteers to roll up their sleeves and build an on-site urban farm and garden that will serve as an educational tool as well as a place to harvest fresh produce. Students spent the day gardening, playing recycling games, eating and learning about healthy snacks, and welcoming urban gardening into their curriculum.
 

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Brooklyn’s El Jardin del Pueblo Transforms an Empty Lot into an Urban Farm

Brooklyn’s El Jardin del Pueblo Transforms an Empty Lot into an Urban Farm

Residents in East New York, Brooklyn have a new place to shop for their eggs without having to step foot inside of a grocery store or bodega. Instead, members of the recently unveiled El Jardin del Pueblo – a community garden project spearheaded by GrowNYC

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NY Restoration Project’s Gardens for the City Applications Are Due Today

NY Restoration Project’s Gardens for the City Applications Are Due Today

If you’ve been dreaming about a community garden for your neighborhood, don’t miss your chance to have the New York Restoration Project boost your project with building materials, construction help and educational support. NYRP is looking for worthy applicants

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GrowNYC Collects Its 1,000,000th Pound of Compost

GrowNYC Collects Its 1,000,000th Pound of Compost

This past Sunday at the Carroll Gardens Greenmarket, GrowNYC and the Department of Sanitation of New York celebrated their collection of 1,000,000 pounds of compost! Each week, over 2,000 New Yorkers bring their food scraps to their local green markets where

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Big Apple Crunch!: Grab a Free Apple at Your Nearest Greenmarket Tomorrow

Big Apple Crunch!: Grab a Free Apple at Your Nearest Greenmarket Tomorrow

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Tomorrow, GrowNYC and New York’s Greenmarkets will be celebrating National Food Day in a LOUD way with their citywide Big Apple Crunch event. Starting at noon, New Yorkers will be able to visit their nearest Greenmarkets and pick

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PHOTOS: New Green City Brings Solar Cooking, Poo Power, a Recyclarium and More to Union Square Park

PHOTOS: New Green City Brings Solar Cooking, Poo Power, a Recyclarium and More to Union Square Park

Last week, GrowNYC celebrated all that is sustainable in New York with the return of the New Green City festival in Union Square Park. The fair showcased eco-friendly organizations around the city with demonstrations on composting, recycling, sustainable foods, solar energy, poo power and rainwater harvesting. Special events such as a solar cook-off, guest speakers and endless kids activities made for a fun and sustainable day. Read on to see all of our photos.
 

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GrowNYC is Hosting Two Costume Swaps to Help You Green Your Halloween!

GrowNYC is Hosting Two Costume Swaps to Help You Green Your Halloween!

For those of you who have yet to create a Halloween costume, GrowNYC is offering two earth-friendly, low-cost options. This Friday, October 12th, or if you miss that one, October 20th at the Socrates Sculpture Park in Astoria.
 

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New Green City: Don’t Miss This Fun Fall Celebration of Green in Union Square

New Green City: Don’t Miss This Fun Fall Celebration of Green in Union Square

Join GrowNYC as they transform Union Square into New Green City, an all-day celebration of the best sustainable food, technology and art on October 10th. The hands-on symposium will invite New Yorkers to join together to learn and discuss easy green practices towards

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PHOTOS: The FARMacy Vertical Farm Pops Up at Socrates Sculpture Park!

PHOTOS: The FARMacy Vertical Farm Pops Up at Socrates Sculpture Park!

Art and farming have come together for Natalie Jeremijenko’s sky-high vertical farm, which is the latest exhibition at Long Island City’s Socrates Sculpture Park! Head on over to the waterfront park, bring a picnic, and enjoy “Farmacy,” a collection of edible, hanging gardens. Inhabitat spent an afternoon wandering the grounds and got our hands on some of the AgBags the artist used to create a vertical farm perfect for city living. Read on to see all of our pics!
 

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An 8,000-Square-Foot Student Farm Grows in Brownsville, Brooklyn

An 8,000-Square-Foot Student Farm Grows in Brownsville, Brooklyn

Throughout New York City’s five boroughs, there are thousands of acres of city land sitting completely empty. One such lot sits across the street from P.S. 323 in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Once filled with weeds and trash, the 8,000-square-foot lot is currently

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GrowNYC and Pratt Industries Give NYC Schools 40,000 Recycling Bins

GrowNYC and Pratt Industries Give NYC Schools 40,000 Recycling Bins

New York City students can now practice the habit of recycling in their own classrooms. Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten Island Public Schools will be receiving 40,000 new paper recycling bins. As part of the GrowNYC Recycling Champions program, each school

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New Green City Takes Over Union Square with a Host of Eco-Minded Organizations

New Green City Takes Over Union Square with a Host of Eco-Minded Organizations

The annual New Green City fair, presented by GrowNYC, brought an array of eco-conscious products and programs to the South Plaza of Union Square for the largest green event in Manhattan. Yesterday from 10-4pm, around 200,000 visitors attended the event. In an ongoing effort to move New York towards a greener future, visitors had the chance to learn about government agencies, non-profits, entrepreneurs and community and corporate partners who are helping to make this possible. In addition, there you could test recipes made with local produce, treat the little ones to some fun the fun in the Kids Corner, and see the Mobile Textile Lab brewing up yet another round of natural dyes.
 

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New York Schools Receive $59K in Mini-Grants to Build Student Gardens

New York Schools Receive $59K in Mini-Grants to Build Student Gardens

The city’s garden initiative program for schools founded by GrowNYC just got great news! The Grow to Learn: Citywide School Gardens Initiative has been awarded $59,044 in mini-grant funding from the Mayor’s Fund. The funds will be split amongst 36 New

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Learn How To Dye Your Clothes With Local Produce at the Mobile Textile Lab

Learn How To Dye Your Clothes With Local Produce at the Mobile Textile Lab

If you're a Greenmarket regular, you may have already run into Laura Sansone's House-Wear Mobile Textile Lab. With her small cart on wheels, she takes an inspiring natural dye process to local farmers markets around the five boroughs. The dyes are made on the spot using seasonal produce from the farm stands, and the wool is sourced from New York State farms. Sansone's cart demonstrates the fusion between textiles, farming, and food, and shows how fashion can be both sustainable and accomplished on a truly local scale.
 

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Help New York Farmers Recover From Irene By Dining Out Today!

Help New York Farmers Recover From Irene By Dining Out Today!

Hurricane Irene may have swept through the Northeast nearly two weeks ago, but much of New York State is still reeling from her effects. Mass flooding upstate has devastated many New York farms, completely destroying crops and abruptly shortening or ending

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Recycle Last Season’s Fashions at GrowNYC Textile Collection Centers

Recycle Last Season’s Fashions at GrowNYC Textile Collection Centers

With New York Fashion Week in full swing, you may be wondering what to do with last year’s looks. Thanks to GrowNYC, you can clean out your closet and recycle those extra clothes at one of their special textile collection spots in each of the five boroughs.

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The Art of Farming: Sotheby’s to Auction Local Farm Heirloom Vegetables

The Art of Farming: Sotheby’s to Auction Local Farm Heirloom Vegetables

Next month on September 27, Sotheby’s will be auctioning off some heirlooms that are quite different from the ones they usually showcase: tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, and other edibles from local New York City area farms! Called The Art of Farming, the event

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NYC Named Third Greenest City in New Environmental Sustainability Survey

NYC Named Third Greenest City in New Environmental Sustainability Survey

Eco-friendly New Yorkers, take a moment and pat yourselves on the back. In a new survey on the sustainability practices and policies of American and Canadian cities, New York was named the third greenest city, just behind the historically top ranked cities

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NYC Students Cook With Solar Powered Pizza Boxes at Union Square Greenmarket

NYC Students Cook With Solar Powered Pizza Boxes at Union Square Greenmarket

Why buy a microwave when all you need is a cardboard box and a little help from the sun? Students from Edward R. Murrow and James Madison high schools presented a clever collection of fun and exciting green home designs at the Union Square Greenmarket yesterday

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NYC Public Schools Receive Funding For Student Gardens

NYC Public Schools Receive Funding For Student Gardens

As part of a new program, Grow to Learn: The Citywide School Gardens Initiative, 29 NYC public schools will receive $2000 in grants from GrowNYC and the Mayor’s Fund to Advance NYC, in an effort to promote the creation of sustainable school gardens.

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GrowNYC to Expand Composting Program to 6 More Greenmarkets

GrowNYC to Expand Composting Program to 6 More Greenmarkets

GrowNYC will launch a pilot program on March 5 that will expand composting collection to six more Greenmarkets.

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Survey Shows Majority of NYC Community Gardens Grow Food, Compost

Survey Shows Majority of NYC Community Gardens Grow Food, Compost

New York City’s gardeners are helping to lead the way in creating more sustainable communities. Of those surveyed, 80 percent of the city’s community gardens produce food for their neighborhood, 65 percent compost, and 43 partner with at least one school.

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