Vegetable Project in Albany, NY

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The mission of the Vegetable Project is to create hands-on learning opportunities for children in Albany, and especially children with great needs, by building gardens, growing plants and harnessing the power of exposure to nature.

Teaching and learning in the garden can go in so many different directions. As an example, we might give a bit more atte...
08/20/2026

Teaching and learning in the garden can go in so many different directions. As an example, we might give a bit more attention in the weeks ahead than we often have previously to science -- specifically about the role that flowers play in reproduction. How widely is it understood anyway that plants simply cannot make seeds until some flower-based action -- pollination, or the transfer of pollen from a male organ to a female one happens -- gets going.

We organized a tree planting event at North Albany Middle School in the fall of 2022, after seeing a pair of discouragin...
08/09/2026

We organized a tree planting event at North Albany Middle School in the fall of 2022, after seeing a pair of discouraging newspaper articles about situations at the school and reasoning that we could make a contribution by harnessing the healing power of contact with nature.

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/46-students-suspended-from-North-Albany-Middle-16928262.php

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Several-Albany-schools-on-lockout-17200336.php

Seeing apples and pears on the trees on Saturday certainly was encouraging.

Selling Albany's professional educators on the idea that getting kids outside and getting their hands dirty supports wellbeing that in turn supports academic achievement, however, is an unfulfilled mission.

One amaryllis plant at Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School seems a bit mixed up a few days ago. Members of its cohor...
08/04/2026

One amaryllis plant at Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School seems a bit mixed up a few days ago. Members of its cohort -- we placed about 100 potted bulbs in classrooms around the school building back in the winter -- mostly bloomed in February and March. We moved 40 plants into garden soil in June so they could soak up all the sunlight possible until encouraging dormancy in October. And we certainly didn't expect to see a colorful display in the summer. Maybe this one never flowered when the others did.

Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School students, friends, family and, well, everyone else, are invited to the summer ed...
07/13/2026

Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School students, friends, family and, well, everyone else, are invited to the summer edition of the Vegetable Project's long running Garden Club, on Tuesday evenings Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. We will dig in the dirt, do some planting, some harvesting, some learning, some getting the garden ready for many class visits planned for September. And maybe most of all, we will meet one another!

Hope to see you this week, on Tuesday, July 14!

Capital Region educators, education leaders and other interested community members: You are invited to the inaugural Tea...
07/12/2026

Capital Region educators, education leaders and other interested community members: You are invited to the inaugural Teaching in the Garden Workshop at Siena University on Monday, Aug. 24!

Learn about nuts and bolts issues such as garden maintenance and community/family engagement, emerging trends like farm to table programming and pulling it all together with outdoor and place-based education curriculum.

Please sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdGDraTisVL5zQz2vNNbhhvpB86G0GJebVMoNyujuwXwgSFvg/viewform or drop email to [email protected]. And please do it soon, as space is limited for this first time around.

Whether you are thinking about launching a garden program or furthering work you have already started, this workshop is for you! Come interested; come curious.

The workshop, a collaboration of Siena, the Schenectady City School District's Farm to School Project and the Vegetable Project, will be on the Siena campus in Loudonville from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. with breakfast and lunch provided. Six continuing teaching and leadership education credits will be offered to interested attendees.

Tentative Agenda:
8:30 - Arrival and breakfast
9:00 - Guest Speaker
10:00 -12:15 - Model Lessons & Debrief/Planning
12:30 - 1:30 - Lunch
1:30 -2:15 - Panel Presentation
2:30-3:00 - Roundtable Discussions
3:00-3:30 - Wrap Up

We hope to see you there!
Jenni Suriano, Siena University
Rebekka Henriksen, Farm to School; Schenectady CSD
Bill Stoneman, Vegetable Project

And if you are unable to attend this year’s event, but are interested in a similar one in the future, please complete the Google Form. This workshop is a pilot step toward a larger conference that we hope to host in the very near future.

The pink blob resting on the garden fork tine on Thursday had four legs and a beating heart! It could not have been too ...
07/10/2026

The pink blob resting on the garden fork tine on Thursday had four legs and a beating heart! It could not have been too old, but we certainly do not have the knowledge to guess whether that meant hours or days. Heck, we're not even sure if it's a mouse or a mole or a vole. We never get a good enough look at the small creatures scampering around our gardening at Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School.

We're hosting a worksite right now for Albany's Summer Youth Employment Program. And high school students who were assigned to spend five weeks with us found this little guy, or maybe gal, while turning compost.

This is life.

We build teaching and learning around doing and touching and tasting and experiencing -- because we know that it works.

Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School students, friends, family and, well, everyone else, are invited to the summer ed...
07/07/2026

Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School students, friends, family and, well, everyone else, are invited to the summer edition of the Vegetable Project's long running Garden Club, on Tuesday evenings Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. We will dig in the dirt, do some planting, some harvesting, some learning, some getting the garden ready for many class visits planned for September. And maybe most of all, we will meet one another!

Assemblymember Gabriella Romero, seen here chatting with the Vegetable Project's Hailee Smith (left), visited our garden...
06/29/2026

Assemblymember Gabriella Romero, seen here chatting with the Vegetable Project's Hailee Smith (left), visited our garden at Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School on a hot Monday afternoon. And we are grateful for her interest in our work to get kids outside and get their hands dirty. We build teaching and learning in the City School District of Albany around doing and touching and tasting and experiencing -- because we know that it makes a difference.

Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School students, friends, family and, well, everyone else, are invited to the summer ed...
06/23/2026

Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School students, friends, family and, well, everyone else, are invited to the summer edition of the Vegetable Project's long running -- this picture here is from 2011 -- Garden Club, starting this Tuesday, June 23, from 6 to 8 p.m. We will dig in the dirt, do some planting, some harvesting, some learning, some getting the garden ready for many class visits planned for September. And maybe most of all, we will meet one another!

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108 Whitehall Road
Albany, NY
12209

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