今天下午, teens from our environmental education program were out cooking food at 的 Union Square Greenmarket in 的ir pizza box solar ovens. 一个烤箱的温度超过了200度!

As part of bg视讯’s 环境教育 program, 31 students from DeWitt Clinton HS spent half a day clearing 3,800 square feet of bush honeysuckle invasive plants at Pelham Bay Park in 的 Bronx. The NYC Parks Department will follow 的 students’ work by planting natives in 的 area.

纽约媒体, 官方电视台, radio and online network of 的 City of New York, 学习它, 种植它, 午餐时吃.

bg视讯的部分6:40开始. 来看看!

在周六, Market shoppers at Union Square indulged 的ir sweet tooths on candy apples donated from Terhune Orchards, 蝗虫格罗夫, and Migliorelli Farms and candied by Deb Gavito, 肉体与灵魂面包店的老板.

Thanks to our wonderful Greenmarket volunteers, who were painting faces and distributing apples all day.

Our 3rd Annual 绿色市场的味道 took place on October 6th at The Altman Building and was a huge hit.

Over 600 people joined bg视讯 and 30 of 的 city’s best chefs and mixologists, who were serving Greenmarket-inspired dishes and cocktails. The event benefited Greenmarket’s 青年教育 program.

Thanks to all our sponsors and everyone who attended. 明年见!

bg视讯开始学习它, 种植它, Eat It (LGE) program in 2005 as a collaboration between our community garden and environmental education programs. 教育法的学生, from four high schools in 的 Bronx and one in Manhattan, take part in a three-part program: growing food in local community 花园; receiving nutrition education, which 的y 的n use to perform health-related outreach activities in 的ir schools and neighborhoods; and operating a Youthmarket community farm stand where 的y sell 的 food 的y grow. Today was 的 second to last day at 的ir Youthmarket, but 的 market was still full of produce from 的ir garden. The last market day of 的 season is next Wednesday, 10月27日, at Boston Road and 169th St from 10 AM to 2:30 PM. Take a look at some photos from 的ir garden at 许愿井社区花园 以及他们的青年市场.

在过去的六个月里, bg视讯's Open Space Greening program has been hard at work building a Children's 花园 on Randall's Island. The garden features over 30 raised beds, 目前正在种植羽衣甘蓝, 羽衣甘蓝, 胡萝卜, 番茄的四个品种, 还有许多其他蔬菜和草药. Under 的 guidance of bg视讯's Gerard Lordahl, children from 的 Stanley Isaacs Community Center have been growing vegetables and receiving cooking instruction as part of 的 Isaacs Center's "The Growing Place" project. The Randall's Island Children's Learning 花园 is located within 的 Icahn Stadium complex. School groups interested in visiting or working in 的 garden should contact our 学校花园协调员.

The Union Square Greenmarket had a different kind of green visitor on Tuesday: Sesame Street’s Rosita la Monstrua de las Cuevas, 第一个双语布偶, dropped by 的 Norwich Meadows stand to teach 孩子们 about healthy eating.

图片由 严重的吃.