CITY GROWERS INC

Description

City Growers History

City Growers was established by the founders of the Brooklyn Grange LLC, a for profit commercial rooftop urban farming business to explore the educational potential of a rooftop farm. Brooklyn Grange offered paid tours to youth who expressed amazement at everything from where carrots came from, to that food could even be grown in a City. Many conveyed that nature did not belong to them, and that it was for "other people." To combat this and establish equity by offering free high quality tours to all youth, City Growers was formed and staffed with trained educators to build an experiential nature based curriculum that allows urban youth to see New York City as a thriving ecosystem, and give them the tools to sustain that ecosystem.

Programs and Impact

City Growers’ programs include rooftop farm workshops, after school programs, summer camps, high school skills-training programs (ecosystems and urban agriculture), classroom and school garden workshops and residencies. Through our programming, outreach and highly subsidized rates, City Growers is committed to ensuring that the young people who need our programs the most - those attending Title 1 schools with limited resources, those living in neighborhoods with few green spaces, and those who lack opportunities to meaningfully interact with the natural world due to socioeconomic constraints - can access them.