Monthly Archives: February 2011

Crazy for Brassicas!

By Elena Garcia | Published: February 23, 2011
This winter has yielded a wonderful abundance of brassicas. From spicy mustard greens to crunchy purple cabbage, curly Russian kale and neon green Romanesco cauliflower, winter has been especially colorful, not to mention tasty, this year.  Diversity permeates the garden with the many varieties of vegetables that comprise bed after bed. Brassicas are particularly unique [...]
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The Secret Life of Benches

By Sasha Harris-Lovett | Published: February 15, 2011
During the day, the garden hums with life.  Students and hummingbirds alike suck the nectar from edible flowers.  Garden teachers prune the fruit trees.  The neighborhood black and white cat patrols the compost heap, searching for rodents.  The chickens scratch for grubs in the dirt.  But after twilight, we can only guess what goes on– [...]
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Cooking as Science

By Monica Linzner | Published: February 11, 2011
Sometimes cooking is a hobby, sometimes a job, and sometimes an art. Cooking can be many things, we explained to the 8th grade science classes when they visited the kitchen last week. But cooking, we emphasized, is always science. Recently the Edible Schoolyard kitchen has transformed into a science laboratory—a place where students have witnessed [...]
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The Ducks Quack

By Jonah Mossberg | Published: February 4, 2011
Meet Claudia. Claudia was recently rescued by the local SPCA and brought to us by her last owners who could no longer take care of her. She is a Pekin duck with an extremely friendly and calm demeanor–and a serious quack! In fact, we were told that her previous owners had to give her up [...]
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Posh

By Esther Cook | Published: February 1, 2011
Over the years we have received many unusual and surprising gifts at the Edible Schoolyard. One such gift was our very first chicken, Haeve, brought to us by a friend who encountered her while hiking the Haeve trail in Tilden park; then there was the beautiful and hefty (14 pound!) mortar and pestle discovered one [...]
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