Edible Schoolyard NYC

Thank you Sculptor volunteers, including ESYNYC Board member Sam Leff, for joining us at P.S. 216 for a productive workday! Volunteers did a great job weeding, mulching pathways and planting areas, trimming overgrown plants, and installing landscape fabric. A special shout out to Janine Graham and Paige Colvin for their effort organizing this workday! ESYNYC is grateful for Sculptor’s support and hard work in helping us maintain our garden where our students can learn through hands-on experiences.

Thanks to volunteers from Bennie, the P.S. 216 garden got some extra care! Volunteers spent the day weeding, spreading mulch, organizing the shed, and breaking up compost. Thank you, Bennie, for helping care for a space where our students learn and explore.

Edible Schoolyard NYC is hiring! 🌱 We’re searching for a Vice President of Programs to lead the Program and Garden Teams and to drive the strategic development, ex*****on, ongoing refinement, and growth of ESYNYC’s programs, ensuring strong impact for the students, families, partners, and communities we serve.

This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced program leader to build, grow, and enhance a creative, inspiring, and joyful program as ESYNYC continues to serve 30+ schools and over 4,000 students annually.

Interested in applying or know someone who might be a good fit? More info in our bio!

While school is out, ESYNYC’s garden at P.S. 216 is thriving! 🌿 These grapes are almost ready to harvest, and require annual pruning, even moisture, and lots of sun. ☀️🍇Our tunnel of various veggies and plants leads to a garden full of figs, milkweed, monarda, and a sweetbay magnolia. We are so grateful for our ESYNYC garden team who maintains our school gardens throughout the summer!

A huge thank you to the volunteers from Latham & Watkins who joined us at Brighter Choice Community School in Brooklyn! ☀️ Volunteers built a garden bed, added twine to a trellis as a pathway for grapes, assisted with clean-up, and created supports for plants in our garden beds. 🪴🍇 Thank you for your support and hard work!

ESYNYC is excited to host our summer gardening workshop! Reviewing the summer garden through a holistic and ecological lens, we will cover a wide scope of topics including perennial and annual plants, summer weeds, pruning, trellising, and integrated pest management.

🗓️ Saturday, July 18th, 10am-2pm
📍 P.S. 216 Arturo Toscanini, 350 Avenue X, Brooklyn, NY 11223
🌱 The workshop is free and open to the public. Must be 18+ to attend. Registration is available on a first come, first serve basis. Since spots are limited, please only register if you can attend!

To learn more and register, visit the link in our bio.

Happy Last Day of School to our community of students, families, educators and school staff, and ESYNYC program staff! 🎉 We’re wrapping up the 2025-26 school year with some of our favorite photos from our core schools. We wish our community a joyful summer and we can’t wait to see you at some of our farmstands and open gardens this summer, and to welcome you back to our gardens & classrooms next year! 🌱

This month, our is all about fairy gardens! 🧚 The Fairy Habitat Garden Construction lesson fosters imaginative play in students as they think of ways to make garden spaces inviting for all (including fairies!). This month, students at Brighter Choice Community School sketched out their fairy garden ideas and then used bins, dirt, craft materials, and rocks to create gardens for fairies. 🌱

Today and every day, ESYNYC honors the perseverance and contributions of Black Americans while recognizing systemic injustices that prevail. To commemorate , we join in the tradition of eating red foods. Rooted in West and Central African heritage, the tradition of eating red foods on Juneteenth is held to honor the resilience, empowerment, and sacrifice of Black Americans.