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2019 Brooklyn School Gardens Crawl
Directory of Gardens

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PS 15 in Red Hook established its gardens more than 16 years ago. The garden's focus
is on native plantings and maintaining a World Wildlife Garden Habitat
Certification. PS 15 is still rebuilding its gardens after the devastation of Superstorm
Sandy. The school garden has a bird habitat in the center courtyard, raised garden beds
in the playground and tree beds with assistance from our partners at Trust for Public
Land who also support our Fall and Spring Stewardship Festivals. The school is
rebuilding raised beds and tree beds around the perimeter of the school.
School Address: 71 Sullivan Street
Public Transportation: B61 Bus to Van Brunt/Sullivan St.
How to access the school garden: The schoolyard
Theme for the 2019 Crawl: Fall Stewardship
For more information:
PS 15
The Patrick
F. Daly
School

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PS 24’s School Garden is fully accessible and barrier free, just like the school
building, and designed specifically to ensure the enjoyment of the garden by all. Visit
this new school garden and see the love the school community has put into it.
School Address: 427 38th St.
Public Transportation: R, D to 36th St., B63, B37
How to access the school garden: Enter through the main school entrance and check
in with security. You will be guided through the auditorium into the courtyard.
Theme for the 2019 Crawl: Movement in Nature
For more information: 718-832-9366
PS 24
Brooklyn

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The PS 39 Edible Community Garden was opened under the direction of school
parent Frida Lim in 2011. Our entire outdoor garden is a wonderful experiment in
container gardening and sub-irrigation. We have an annual mix of vegetables,
perennials, flowers, herbs and shrubs to see what grows best in our Brooklyn climate.
Every student, teacher and parent has the opportunity to plant, harvest, taste and
learn from our garden. This year we grew tomatoes, peppers, blackberries, ground
cherries, potatoes, radishes, bok choy, and a variety of herbs. We're introducing
more evergreen varieties for year round beauty as well as perennial flowers to attract
more bees and butterflies.
School Address: 417 6th Ave at 8th St.
Public Transportation: F, G to 7th Ave., B61, B63, B67, B69
How to access the school garden: The main school gates lead to the garden
Theme for the 2019 Crawl: Harvest and Renewal
For more information: (718) 330-9310
PS 24
Brooklyn

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The PS 32 School Garden is a green roof began about 11 years ago. Started by a core group of
amazing, dedicated, and ambitious parents, the garden has wooden beds, a three bin
compost system, sensory beds, a green house, outdoor classroom, and galvanized
steel stock tank planters. As the garden evolved, PS 32 hired Fred Wolf of NatureBasedNY as
its garden coordinator during the 2014-15 school year. 2019 represents Fred's 6th teaching and
garden coordinating year at PS 32.
Fred and the garden committee has transformed the underutilized space into a schoolyard
permaculture oasis. Among the many plants on the green roof, it has two species of figs, bush
cherry, elderberry, sea berry, goumi berry, fennel, corn, beans, squash, tomatoes, peppers, sun
chokes, potatoes, black berries, raspberry, blueberry, hardy kewi, passion flower, many indigenous
flowers and grasses, strawberry, anise, sage, dill, chard, kale, cabbage, collards, watermelons,
cantaloupes, parsley, june berry.
The green garden is wild mix of school garden, ecological area, permaculture green
roof, urban farm magical learning environment.
School Address: 317 Hoyt St. at Union
Public Transportation: F,G to Carroll St.
How to access the school garden: Enter the main entrance, go through security, go to the roof
Theme for the 2019 Crawl: Green Roof Garden
For more information: fred@naturebasedny.com
PS 32
Samuel
Mills
Sprole

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PS 169 Sunset Park School's Garden is tucked away behind the kindergarten building extension,
only accessible through a science room. Once you find your way to the garden, you'll step into a
quiet, secluded spot with raised beds, filled with a variety of flowers, vegetables, fruit and herbs as
well as chickens.
The garden was created in May 2019. With the help of the school’s gardening committee and
Center for Family Life (CFL), PS 169 has created a lush space filled with plant and animal life.
School Address: 4305 7th Ave
Public Transportation: R to 45th St, D to 9th Ave., B63
How to access the school garden: Enter through school’s main entrance with ID
Theme for the 2019 Crawl: Secret Garden
For more information: jfidler2@schools.nyc.gov
PS 169
Sunset Park
School

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The PS 118 School Garden is an outdoor living laboratory that nurtures curiosity and exploration,
supports learning, fosters health, and builds life-long skills and knowledge, enabling our community
to grow towards a more environmentally sustainable future.
The garden is inspired by Riverpark farm, a portable and modular NYC farm located in a dense
urban community. Like the farm, the school plants in milk crates with special liners that provide for
aeration, water drainage and heat release and will help the school get bigger, better plants than
what it would get with the same size plastic, fabric, or other liners.
The PS 118 garden is an outdoor classroom for any number of subjects, including science and
ecology, math, creative writing, language arts, biology, solid waste issues, arts, and the
environment. Our garden is a space for kids with different learning styles and abilities to work in
groups and engage in hands-on, cross-disciplinary education.
School Address: 211 8th St.
Public Transportation: R, F, G to 9th St. 4th Ave, B61, B63, B37
How to access the school garden: The gates on 4th Ave. between 7th and 8th Streets
Theme for the 2019 Crawl: Pizza! Pizza! Pizza!
For more information: ps118pta.org/programs/garden/
PS 118
The Maurice
Sendak
Community
School

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PS 29: In the fall of 2007, teachers, parents, administration, custodial staff and school chefs came
together to envision what food and farming would look at PS29. As a result, the school garden serves
as an outdoor classroom and is instrumental in teaching about the life cycle of plants, nutrition,
and the relationship between plants, animals and people. Students learn the benefits of
growing their own food. They always take pride in what they have grown and are eager to
sample and share vegetables with their friends in the cafeteria and school community. The Curriculum
comes alive in the garden and it has given a purpose to our learning. Students learn about insects and
particularly the relationship between pollinators and the food we grow.
The PS 29 school garden is also used for after school courses and as a lunch time club for students.
Families help maintain the garden throughout the summer. Some of the vegetables and
herbs that are growing in our garden are carrots, peppers, lettuce, butternut squash, tomatoes, kale,
basil, beans, corn, arugula, onion and garlic bok choy, chives, fennel, sage, parsley, tarragon,
rosemary, thyme, lemon balm, mint, oregano,and strawberries. We also have an apple tree. We have
a pollinator garden with many perennials.
School Address: 425 Henry St.
Public Transportation: F, G to Bergen, R to Court St, B63 to Atlantic Ave./Henry St.
How to access the school garden: Enter through schoolyard on Kane St. b/w Henry and Strong Pl.
Theme for the 2019 Crawl: Urban farm
For more information: ps29pc@gmail.com
PS 29
Brooklyn

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PS 146/Brooklyn New School (BNS): For over 14 years, families and staff and children have
worked to fulfill the dream of greening the schoolyard. When BNS first moved to 610 Henry Street,
the yard was a concrete parking lot bordered by a highway. Beginning with two metal trough
planters that are still in front of our school, the garden added a dozen or so movable raised
beds, and finally, in-ground beds were built four years ago. The School Farm includes a
farmhouse classroom or ecocasita, rainwater catchment system, and a worm
composting system.
The science and sustainability curriculum connects to the farm and students are actively
involved in caring for it. Three hens were added just three years ago. What's next? A goat? A
green roof? BNS is still hoping and dreaming and working.
For more information: bnsecorama.blogspot.com
School address: 610 Henry Street at 2nd Place
Public Transportation: F, G to Carroll St, B61 to Court St./W 9th. St.
How to access the garden: Enter the gates on Rapeleye St. between Henry and Hicks
Theme for the 2019 Crawl: Science and Sustainability
For more information: 718-923-4750
PS 146
Brooklyn
New
School

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The Brooklyn Urban Garden Charter School (BUGS) in Windsor Terrace is a community-
based diverse-by-design middle school in CSD15 which is driven by its mission of sustainability and
its CARES values. Since its founding 7 years ago, BUGS has been developing its gardens and its
garden curriculum as a key element of our approach to sustainability education, which include
environmental, social and economic sustainability. Over these years BUGS students have built and
designed 3 different gardens. The first two gardens that were created were a milk crate food
garden and the wildlife habitat garden. The raised bed food garden was originally made with
reusable milk crates because it was in the recess yard and there was no soil to plant in (it was
therefore called "The Yarden"). After negotiations with the building, the food garden moved to the
front of the building making it more accessible and available to the community and other schools
that share our building. The wildlife garden was designed and planted around the same time as a
habitat for birds and insects and for the study of systems thinking and life cycles. The final garden
was designed and planted by 6th grade students in 2017-2018 as a peace garden to demonstrate
and share our commitment to mindfulness and peace that is another key element of our school
culture through our meditation program and focus on social sustainability.
Address: 500 19th St.
Public Transportation: F, G, R, B61, B67, B68, B69
How to access the school garden: Outside, in front of the school building
Theme for the 2019 Crawl: Art, Seed Saving and Exploration
For more information: info@bugsbrooklyn.org, 718-280-9556
BUGS
Brooklyn
Urban
Garden
Charter
School
Food Garden Wildlife Habitat Garden Peace Garden