[slideshow_deploy id=’10575′] This February, Michelle and Michael from the National Parks Dept brought a bunch of native plant seeds to this 2nd-grade classroom. See the students learn how to scarify and sow the seeds that were collected from Gateway National Park in October. As part of the Growing a Wild Brooklyn & Queens program, class 2-2…
The pilot program, Growing A Wild Brooklyn & Queens, which includes 2-2 and 11 other local classes, just got a big boost! U.S. Fish and Wildlife pledged 2 million dollars toward the National Wildlife Federation efforts to help rescue Monarch butterflies via schools. Click here to see the NBC Nightly News segment featuring PS 179…
Thanks to the generosity of Butterfly Project NYC, we have a slew of new baby butterfly-friendly native plants from their Fall workshop. In the spring, we were grateful to accept from the group many plants that welcomed butterflies (and caterpillars) along with other pollinators this summer. Now we have a few more to get into…
