New York Botanical Garden

The New York Botanical Garden will undertake a two-year project to develop, implement, and evaluate new edible gardening programs and to measure the effectiveness of existing programs. This project will help the garden expand its gardening initiatives, culminating in the opening of a new year-round edible gardening complex that will be known as The Edible Academy. Scheduled to open in early 2015, The Edible Academy will expand the footprint of the existing Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden through additional gardening space, new classrooms, and a greenhouse. The garden’s programming will increase from six months per year to year-round, which will double the number of people served by edible gardening programs to approximately 80,000 visitors.