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Want to learn about the garden mission, vision, contact information, and more? Click the link above. Interested in helping student gardeners grow? Express your interest by filling out the PS 48 School Garden Interest Form.
We would like to thank the supporters of our garden. You are the ones that make it happen!
Would you like to support the garden? We seek garden equipment, planting materials (seeds, soil, compost, seedlings), and expertise. Please fill out the PS 48 School Garden Interest Form or contact Mr. Justin Czarka at "mrczarka (at) gmail (dot) com" or (718) 589-4312.
Help us achieve our goal of ensuring every student is an urban farmer. Because every child should know how to grow food! You may also adopt our outdoor classroom by visiting DonorsChoose.org.
There always something new happening in the garden. Maybe students are planting daffodils one day. The next they are using binoculars to explore animal diversity. Check back often to see what the student scientists are up to!
After school programming for English Language Learners (ELLs) to develop science content knowledge and English literacy skills. Established in Spring 2011, The South Bronx Gardeners Program gets students into the garden after school to develop their own garden movies and their very own field guides for the plants in The South Bronx Schoolyard Garden and Outdoor Classroom.
Practice these important guidelines when you are in the garden.
Learn from other students about how to use the garden. Have an idea for another video? Propose it and film it!
Thank you for taking care of the garden and outdoor learning space! The plants and animals thank you! The students thank you! The following are some tips and ideas to get the most out of keeping the garden alive and creating positive experiences for students in the garden space.
We usually think about growing plants in soil. "Hydroponics" is a bit different. When we grow plants in water, we call it hydroponics. This is a different way to grow plants. Learn more!
Fungi are amazing. They are neither plants nor animals. But the are VERY important to plants and animals, including us humans! Explore fungi and the mushrooms they produce inside PS 48 and in the school garden.
Starting in Spring 2015, the students of PS 48 begin collecting data for a long term tree census of trees in the school garden and Drake Park. See sample lesson ideas connecting to PS 48's Hunts Point Slave Burial Ground Project. You can also use i-Tree to calculate the benefits that trees provide to humans and the environment. Mr. Czarka uses i-Tree from his phone to learn about trees in New York City, too, with Math for America.
Farming Concrete "is a way to help measure all of the good things growing in your farm, garden, or yard, from hot peppers to happiness." This will helps us measure our "harvest" and the benefits of our schoolyard garden for the Hunts Point community.
So...you want to grow some food in a garden?
So...you want to grow some food in a garden?
You will have to germinate some seeds first. Germinate means nurturing (taking care of) of plant seeds indoors to help them grow into baby plants. Take a look at these pictures of students preparing to edible plants for growing outside in a garden. What should they do next?
Read your notes from last time planting!
Open up the seed pods.
Use a dropper to wet the peat pellet.
Explore different resources, ideas, and best practices for using the outdoors for teaching, whether it is gardening, observing nature, studying climate change, reading a book, or just paying attention to the wind, clouds, and other weather events.
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