Happy Earth Day Weekend!

Sprout had a fantastic Earth Day weekend with volunteers from Lyons Community School, The Green School, and New York Cares!

Lots of neighbors stopped by to ask about the project.

Radish sprouts

Together we built and filled 10 raised beds.

The finished product!

We cannot thank all of the volunteers enough who came out to do the heavy lifting and all of our partners who made this project possible:

Open Space Institute: Citizen Action Program
The Green School
Lyons Community School
Citizens Committee for NYC
NYC Parks: GreenThumb
Build It Green!NYC:  BIG!Blooms
New York Cares

Here are a few photos from the day.  Additional photos are on our Facebook page.

New York Cares volunteers get right to work!

Raking the soil smooth

The Sprout Farms founders celebrate their most recently awarded grant (details coming soon)

Moving soil

Planting lettuce, chard and sorrel

Tommy is one of our most enthusiastic Garden Club members

A well deserved lunch break in the park next to the site

Booters waters the plants

Lyons teacher Rob Whiteman moving soil

Moving even more soil

Painting the new mural

A new mural on the compost bin

Heather and Katie

We are excited to have the garden structure now in place and focus our energies on growing.