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| Arriving at the farm |
If you want to visit a farm, look no further than....Brooklyn, New York! That's what some of P.S. 230's fifth-graders learned during a recent after school trip to Brooklyn Grange. The farm, which opened in 2012, is 12 stories up on Building 3 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It's a commercial farm, which means it grows its produce to sell. Some area restaurants are buyers and the farm has a CSA, which stands for Community Supported Agriculture. As a CSA member, you pay a membership fee in the winter, which helps to support the farmer during the growing season. Then each week, the farmer delivers freshly-picked produce to Brooklyn, where its picked up by the member.
The farm also has an apiary, which is another word for bee hives. The honey made by the bees is also sold by the farm. Fresh Brooklyn honey!
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| The colorful boxes in the background house the bees |
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| There are rows and rows of vegetables, especially all kinds of salad mixes |
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| The farm overlooks the waterfront. After all, this used to be the Brooklyn Navy Yard. |
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| Our tour guide, Nicki, was quite knowledgeable |
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| Sarah and Maddy sharing their worms |
We also got to poke around the farm's worm bin. Students picked their favorite worms and watched them squiggle and wiggle before putting them back.
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| Tasfiya seems to like her worm |
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| Fatima is protecting her worm from the sun |
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| Sanjida shows off her worm for the camera |
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| Hasib checking out Tasifya's new friend |
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| Robayah wants in on the worm fun |
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| Worms make people happy, right Taosif? |
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| Kaseng and Taosif share worms |
Nicki then took everyone over to the farm's chicken coop. Here she
explained that egg colors vary...blue, brown, beige white...and that is
because of the color of the hen's earlobes. I never even thought about
chicken's having earlobes!
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| Estrella has a question for Nicki |
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Students also got to taste some lemony sorrel and spicy arugula and smelled licorice-scented anise and refreshing mint!
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| Yes, that's the Empire State Building in the background. I bet no Iowa farm can top this backdrop! |
The farm was amazing and so large. And this isn't the only farm run by Brooklyn Grange. Their flagship farm is in Long Island City, Queens, where they host free open houses on the weekend.
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13 comments:
Yay, the post is here! The trip was really fun! I especially loved the chickens and the walk to the train. I thought it would be tiring to walk to the train but it didn't feel so bad since we spent our time talking. I never knew what part of a chicken's body was the earlobe, but now I do thanks to that picture! Rooftop farms are amazing! I never knew there were any in NYC until I heard about the Grange. Now I know much more! I watched this video from vimeo which shows a time lapse video if how the Brooklyn Grange developed over time from when it first started and how rows and rows were planted every month and it looked cool how it showed going from nothing to a huge area of plants with rows and rows and rows! It was a good video. I like looking at pica of rooftop farms in NYC and how in the middle of the city there is a farm on a roof and the birds eye view of the roof looks amazing with such a GREEN roof with just so many different and beautiful plants! Well, I ran out of things to say. See you Friday, bye!!
Hi Ms.Seitz!Did you find a surprise in your room?....:)You read the mini card right?I hope you like it.Anyways,our class is gonna go on a trip tomorrow to the Tenement Museum.It's a museum showing the homes or mini apartments that the immigrants used to live in.One of them is gonna be where a German family used to live in and another one where an Italian family used to live in.It's on Orchid Street 106 I guess.We will go there on the Subway Station.We'll get off on Delancey Street.I will give you the details later.Bye!
Hehe look at my face it was an amazing trip. My favorite part was when we got to taste fresh plants. What was your fav. Plant ms.seitz. had to write this comment twice bah :)
Your not going to believe this Sarah, but after I left my job as a newspaper reporter, I worked at The Tenement Museum. And I gave tours of those apartments--the Gumpertz and Baldizzi apartments. I remember them so well and remember their stories! It's a very cool museum.
And Sanjida, my favorite part of the trip was actually just being up on the roof and seeing a fully operating farm in a place like that. What an unlikely place. I also liked the breeze up there.
No way, you worked at the museum?? We saw the Gumperts and Baldizzi apartments too! We learned that Natalie Gumperts' husband Julius went to work one day and never came home so she had to start a sewing business of her own. The class was broken up into three groups and my groups' tour guide was named Eva Amese. We also got to hear a recording of Josephine Baldizzi, the daughter of Adolfo and Rosaria Baldizzi. She was alive and talked to the museums founders about living in her tenemant! How cool! But she isn't alive anymore. :( We even saw a pic if her and her brother when they were little and her new family and kids when she was grown up and pics of her descendants. I loved the museum and the tenemants. On Monday, the fifth grade is going on the senior trip: roller skating at the LeFrak skating rink in Prospect Park. So excited!!! I'll tell you more about it after the trip since we have UNC on Monday. Well, I gotta go. Bye!! See you Monday. :)
Yes, I was the tour guide who pressed the button to play the voice of Josephine. And yep, I know the whole story about the Gumpertz's. They were German Jews and the Baldizzis were Italians. The tenement museum shows how different groups populated the Lower East Side at different times in history. The Baldizzis were among the last immigrants to live there before the tenement I think closed up and was used for storage, if I remember correctly. Have fun roller skating!
Yes, your right about the Baldizzis being among the last because they were told to move out in 1935 when it was illegal to have wooden staircases so everybody had to leave. However, there were companies in the basement, like the German Beer Saloon that were allowed to keep continuing their businesses. Later, when the whole building was left alone and nobody was there, about like I think 50 years later the museum's founders found it and found things that families abandoned which were artifacts and documents about their history. So they thought it would be a great place to learn from, especially since it was really old with cracked walls, broken windows and stuff like that. Eva, my tour guide, said that the neighborhood used to be not so safe. So later, she took our group to omne of their classrooms and we did an activity where she showed us a card and we would discuss if it was a want or a need. For example some card said, being accepted for who you are, or freedom to practice your belief and religion, or getting a college education, and stuff like that. Some things were kinda like a debate, like when we discussed if clean water was a want or need or having reliable electricity and the being accepted for who you are card. Well, bye! See you soon!
P.S. I can't believe this upcoming Friday will be the last time we have science with you. :(
Hi Ms.Seitz!I am so shocked.I can't wait to tell Ms.Friedman!I loved the feeling I got when I went into the Gumpertz tenement.It was so cozy in there.I felt like snuggling up in one corner.There was a gift shop there too.You are full of surprises Ms.Seitz!
Omg ms.seitz you worked at the tenement musuem wow on my last comment i meant to write fav. Part
Yes Sarah, I guess you can say I've wore many hats! I used to also oversee fundraising parties in another area of the tenement called the tenement kitchen. People with lots of money would have intimate dinners there and I would be in charge of setting them up. While they had their party, I used to go into the Confino apartment (another one of the apartments there) and lay on the bed and think about the people who once lived there. And yes, I can't believe Friday is the last day of science and the last day of school is just around the corner.
I thought the bed was very old or something and you can't lay on it.Tugi wanted to sit on one of the chairs but our tour guide Michelle said it might break if you sat on it.Besides that it sounds so mysterious.To think you are on a bed where the family used to live.Anyways my brother is crazy about the Fifa world cup games.Costa Rica won the game yesterday against Uruguay.Go Costa Rica!My bigger brother has a basketball and my little brother has a volley ball.I have not chosen yet but now I wanna get a Fifa world cup soccer ball.The 2014 version looks pretty nice.I'm not gonna get the original one cuz it costs a lot.But I am gonna get the copy of it.I watched this movie called Soccer Mom and I really want to start playing it.For Father's Day we are gonna go out for dinner.What are you doing?
My favorite was the Baldizzi apartment, it felt the coziest. I felt like living there. :) The Baldizzi's kitchen felt the coziest in their apartment. The guide even gave my group a peek at the bathrooms on the first floor. We couldn't go to the basement because some adults were being given a tour down there but since my group wanted to see it so badly the guide gave us a peek at the basement through the window. It looked cool! It looked exactly like a bar. I cannot wait for tomorrow! I'm desperate for today to be Monday, roller skating will be amazing! :)
P.S. I don't want school to end so fast. I'm gonna miss PS 230, and science and you, Ms. Seitz. :(
Sarah: Yes, the public is not suppose to sit on anything, but I gently laid there....being an employee. My son had baseball on Father's Day; my husband is the coach. Later we went out to dinner too. And yes Tasfiya, the end of school is coming up....a week left. Change can be both exciting and terrifying. But when you settle in, it's all good.
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