We're excited about letting you, our fellow gardeners, educators, neighborhood friends and families, know what's going on at our many community and school gardens and to invite you to ask questions and post comments about your garden, school, neighborhood or your own backyard. This time, we'll tell you about who we are and why we think gardening is so important to the community.
City Green has been working in Paterson, New Jersey's neighborhoods, schools, churches and organizations for over five years now and we're bursting with new ideas for next gardening season. Why are we here? And what do we hope to accomplish? First we're dedicated to helping our Paterson neighbors gain access to fresh healthy food. That's why we developed our New Ground Community Garden program and our City Sprouts Youth Garden program.
These photos tell the story of how our kids feel about watching things grow. It's a new experience for so many of them . And how they light up when they crunch into that carrot or cucumber that they put into the ground as a seedling not so long ago!
City Green is in Paterson Public Schools
Starting community gardens just naturally evolved into educational programming such as our School Grounds program . City Green now has now partnered with Paterson Public Schools to support middle school Environmental Clubs. This year we are developing and publishing City Green K-12 curriculum correlated to the NJ Core Curriculum. We’re in the schools helping teachers teach kids where food comes from, how to live a more healthy life through nutrition, and how to work together in a community. . Every age group from grade school through members of our high school internship program benefits from being outdoors planning, planting , harvesting their vegetables and enjoying their gardens.
City Green is in Paterson Public Schools
Starting community gardens just naturally evolved into educational programming such as our School Grounds program . City Green now has now partnered with Paterson Public Schools to support middle school Environmental Clubs. This year we are developing and publishing City Green K-12 curriculum correlated to the NJ Core Curriculum. We’re in the schools helping teachers teach kids where food comes from, how to live a more healthy life through nutrition, and how to work together in a community. . Every age group from grade school through members of our high school internship program benefits from being outdoors planning, planting , harvesting their vegetables and enjoying their gardens.
We invite you to visit our Learning Garden at Eastside Park
8100 sq ft. garden complete with learning stations, flower gardens, bird and butterfly habitat gardens, native plantings, and winding paths for exploration. Here’s where over children came this summer as part of Paterson’s summer camp programs.
Next year we hope to start an Urban Farm with a professional farmer to oversee the sowing, planting, harvesting and storing of food crops right here in Paterson! Our high school interns from Eastside High School will help work the farm and youth gardeners from the Learning Garden will visit and learn about farming.
Its been an exciting five years watching Paterson “grow”. And we look forward to expanding to other cities.
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