Brooklyn Botanic Garden in Kings County, New York — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Children's Garden
This century old garden is devoted especially to children in BBG's gardening classes. Everything you see here is planted, tended, and harvested by kids!
🔎 Look for hand-painted signs
Children don't just plant the beds, they paint the markerslarge signs indicate age groups; smaller stakes show the gardeners' names.
❗ Sign up for a program.
The Children's Garden is oopen to enrolled program participants only. To learn more or sign up for classes, visit bbg.org/learn/children.
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City Farmer participants maintaining their plot, 2015.
Children learn to clean and maintain their tools, some of which are over 100 years old!
Children receiving a lesson from Miss Frances M. Miner, a Children's Garden educator for 43 years, 1931.
Erected by Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Education • Horticulture & Forestry • Women. A significant historical year for this entry is 1931.
Location. 40° 39.87′ N, 73° 57.713′ W. Marker is in Brooklyn, New York, in Kings County. It is in Brooklyn Botanic Garden. It can be reached from Flatbush
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Regionally, this marker is in New York City and on Long Island. It is also in the American Northeast, in the Mid-Atlantic, and on the Eastern Seaboard. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Netherland and also one of the original Thirteen Colonies.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: A Place for City Kids to Grow Since 1914 (a few steps from this marker); a different marker also named Children's Garden (a few steps from this marker); Shelby White and Leon Levy Water Garden (within shouting distance of this marker); Dasheen (within shouting distance of this marker); Eddoe (within shouting distance of this marker); Living Land Acknowledgement (within shouting distance of this marker); Ginger (within shouting distance of
Credits. This page was last revised on February 7, 2023. It was originally submitted on August 17, 2022, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 172 times since then and 20 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on August 17, 2022, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
