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Summer Garden Series: Grow a Garden from Food Scraps
Transform your food scraps into living plants for your home: learn to re-grow your scallions and other veggies, propagate kitchen herbs,...
Jun 24, 2020


Fruit & Veggie Peel Crafts
On Wednesday this week, we're hosting our first Summer Series workshop on Starting A Garden From Food Scraps. There are so many things...
Jun 22, 2020


Teaching Garden Update 6/19
Things are moving along in the Teaching Garden and with summer just around the corner (tomorrow!) we are starting to harvest tons of...
Jun 19, 2020


Beginner Gardener Intensive: Teaching Garden Q&A
The resources from our final day of the BGI 2020! Read the Complete Q&A from the June 12th workshop. Watch the video below of our...
Jun 12, 2020


Beginner Gardener Intensive: Natural Pest Management (Indoor & Outdoor)
All the resources from our virtual workshop! Read the Complete Q&A from the workshop. See the video below for the recording of our...
Jun 11, 2020


Beginner Gardener Intensive: Home Composting
View the recording of the workshop hosted on June 10th, 2020 below. Read the Complete Q&A here. Resources Reduce, Reuse, Recycle with...
Jun 10, 2020


Beginner Gardener Intensive: Seed Starting
Thank you for joining the Beginner Gardener Workshop today on Seed Starting! See the video below for the workshop hosted on June 9, 2020....
Jun 9, 2020


Beginner Gardener Intensive: Garden Design
All the resources from our virtual Beginner Gardener Workshop (Day 1), held on June 8th, 2020. Scroll to the bottom for the complete Q&A....
Jun 8, 2020


Teaching Garden Update 6/5
This week our update will mainly focus on two amazing plants. Strawberries and Potatoes! It is officially strawberry season and we have...
Jun 5, 2020


Greenmarket at Home: May
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, GrowNYC Greenmarkets have remained open with additional safety practices to ensure the health and...
Jun 4, 2020


Gardening Ebooks for Adults
Summer reading and gardening season is upon us, so here are ten great gardening books and e-books to learn as you grow. For...
Jun 3, 2020


NYC Spring Bird Guide
Governors Island is a favorite spot for NYC birds. The guide below points to a few feathered friends we've seen on the island, but you...
Jun 1, 2020


Teaching Garden update 5/29
We are still working hard in the Teaching Garden, we have planted all of our main beds and have even moved around and filled extra garden...
May 29, 2020


How to Prune Basil
Almost everyone loves Basil and it's a simple herb to grow for beginner gardeners and/or windowsill gardeners. However, it's important to...
May 27, 2020


POTATOES!
Potatoes are the most eaten vegetable in the US! This is not too surprising considering how easy they are to grow and how versatile they...
May 25, 2020


Create a Pollinator Habitat in the City
All the resources from our virtual workshop! See the video below for the recording of our "Create a Pollinator Habitat in the City"...
May 20, 2020


Citizen Science
About Anyone can be a citizen scientist! Citizen science (a.k.a community science) collects data from volunteers, students, and...
May 18, 2020


Teaching Garden Update 5/15
We have been working hard in the Teaching Garden. We have basically finished planting out the entire garden! Meaning this week there are...
May 15, 2020


Eat your Weeds: Mugwort Edition
As we prepare to grow food in the Teaching Garden, we have to start by weeding and prepping the beds. One of the most prolific plants...
May 11, 2020


7 Smart Tricks to Store Fresh Produce
(Español) (Chinese) (Korean) 1. Make onion, garlic, shallot or garden herbs into olive oil or butter cube. Directly freezing garlic,...
May 8, 2020
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