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=Garden Mission= The South Bronx Schoolyard Garden and Outdoor Classroom (SBxSGOC) is a microcosm where students engage in and explore the living environment, sustainable living, and leadership in order to positively influence the greater world. Founded in 2008, we have seen our gardening program foster tremendous environmental literacy development. We will raise students ’ awareness about the degraded state of the living environment both near and afar. Through this capacity building we will ensure our students develop leadership qualities that they will implement in multiple arenas supporting sustainable living in the coming years. Through hands on investigations of the natural world students will be empowered to ‘ green the South Bronx. ’ As a consequence our students will become environmental stewards in New York City and beyond.

= Garden Vision = The South Bronx Schoolyard Garden and Outdoor Classroom (SBxSGOC) provides an outdoor, hands on platform for children more familiar with a concrete landscape to explore the natural environment. This is accomplished during the school day and after school. The garden has a special emphasis on three specific outcomes: a) targeting and engaging English Language Learners with the English language; b) fostering the idea of a garden as a food source; and c) demonstrating humans connection to and impact on the natural environment.

We believe by targeting these three areas through a focused science and environmental perspective, we prepare students to have a well informed voice that shall speak for the natural world and our need as a society to understand the connection. While these areas form the primary emphasis of The South Bronx Schoolyard Garden and Outdoor Classroom, we draw to connections to other avenues of learning.

=Garden Rules= Practice these important rules when you are in the garden. =Using the Garden= Learn from other students about how to use the garden. Have an idea for another video? Propose it and film it! =Contact Us:= The South Bronx Schoolyard Garden and Outdoor Classroom P.S. 48 1290 Spofford Avenue Bronx NY 10474 (718) 589-4312 mrczarka@gmail.com media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&q=the+south+bronx+schoolyard+garden+and+outdoor+classroom&oe=UTF-8&safe=active&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=&hnear=The+South+Bronx+Schoolyard+Garden+and+Outdoor+Classroom,+Spofford+Ave,+Bronx,+New+York+10474&ll=40.814279,-73.886931&spn=0.000611,0.001206&t=h&z=14&output=embed" width="425" height="350" Return to Gardening