More Gardens! Annual Free Environmental Summer Camps and Programming
For the past 19 years, we have offered free environmental summer programs in both the Lower East Side (Children’s Magical Garden, El Jardin del Pariso) and South Bronx (Brook Park, La Finca del Sur, Courtland Community Garden, Rincon Criollo Cultural Center, María Sola Community Greenspace)
Our summer camp gives access to the great outdoors to families providing free outdoor education and environmental arts in local community gardens and parks every year in the month of July
The urban youth and their families who join our free summer camp live in neighborhoods that have some of the highest rates of asthma, diabetes, and poverty in the country. Our campers understand the impact of pollution and environmental destruction firsthand. They are given the opportunity to enjoy nature, and they also want to get a chance to advocate for a healthier neighborhood and planet.
2025 Summer Programming
Click here to apply for our 2025 Summer Camp!
View information on our past summer programming below:
2024 Summer Programming
We are at Brook Park our beloved community garden we started in 1998, for a two-week Family camp and Living Tree Cabana building residency! As it is with the Covid-19 pandemic, our Summer Nature Programs in the Catskills this Summer is spread out in multiple sessions with smaller groups.
2017 Summer Programming
Campers, counselors, and parents teach and share what they learn with the wider community throughout the year at Padre Plaza community garden, sharing their love of the outdoors through plays and interactive presentations to hundreds of community members at the local farmer’s market.
Through games, creative arts and nature excursions campers, parents and junior counselors learn:
Nature awareness including plant, animal, and insect identification
Creative arts such as book-making, theater, and puppetry on environmental themes
Outdoor Education such as swimming in the ocean and in lakes, tree climbing, hiking and canoeing
Outdoorspersonship including tenting, fire building, wilderness first-aid
Cooking and learning healthy eating for and by campers, parents, & staff
Final Registration at Padres Plaza Community Garden from 1-5pm on Sunday June 26th
TBA - 9am the Family and campers preparation day for trip to the camping grounds and mountains.
TBA (July 4th weekend) - Board two vans and head to our Upstate climbing destination in the Minnewaska State Park & Mohonk Preserve.
For MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL 917-518-9987
