This tour is a part of the 2026 National GrowTogether Conference—Soil & Soul: Where Hands Get Dirty and Hearts Connect. Presented by NYC Parks GreenThumb in partnership with The Urban Garden Project with support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The 2026 National GrowTogether Conference—Soil & Soul: Where Hands Get Dirty and Hearts Connect, is an inspiring two-day gathering of community gardeners and leaders nationwide to celebrate the power of urban green spaces and community gardening.
About the tour
This tour explores Edible Schoolyard NYC’s largest garden at PS 216 in Brooklyn—a former lot now a vibrant space with orchard & herb garden.
This tour will explore Edible Schoolyard NYC’s oldest and largest school garden at PS 216 in Gravesend, Brooklyn— converted from a parking lot in 2010 and now a vibrant half-acre school garden.Participants will learn about the Edible Schoolyard NYC program, which hosts pre-K through 5th-grade classes, a student garden club, weekly volunteers, community open garden hours, and a farmstand during the growing season. The horticulture team will share about crop plans, how the school community influences what is grown, the benefits of perennials and pollinator plants, managing a small orchard, and growing an assortment of plants in our onsite greenhouse.
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