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There’s a full day happening at the new community garden at DeWitt Clinton High School on June 6. The makers of vitafusionTM, the #1 adult gummy vitamin brand, has joined forces with the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation (FTPF) to officially launch the “Fruit Tree Project” at our school and have donated to us 35 fruit trees to start an orchard! We are inviting you to lend a hand, dig, move compost, learn how to plant and take care of trees and support our efforts to further transform our environment and feeds our community healthy fresh food.

We will gather at 11:00 am with actress Jennie Garth to kick off the day and will get to learn more about this project as well as The Baldwin Learning Center and Trail Project, a reimagination of urban public space on the DeWitt Clinton High School campus and the surrounding neighborhood of Norwood in the North Bronx. Tree Care Workshop by Fruit Tree Planting Foundation and NYC Compost Project will follow planting event.

DJ Omar Morsy combines his love for gardening and music for this first ever Bronx Music Garden event. With our majestic new community garden as a backdrop, the rhythms will pulse our Bronx students and neighbors as we plant, play and groove to DJ sets with an earth beat in mind and live performances by Never Yet Contested and Ane. If you’ve been lucky enough to attend any number of our events over the last few years you will have already delighted in the delicious garden to table offerings of Executive Chef Noah Sheetz. With as many sustainability students as we can muster, we’ll show you what we do: gardening, community art making, sustainability exhibits, games and prizes. A unique and groundbreaking event with fun for all ages!

The Baldwin Learning Center and Trail Project is centered on the Dewitt Clinton High School campus and the surrounding neighborhood of Norwood in the North Bronx. This neighborhood has one of the highest percentages of green space to population in New York City, but this wealth of public space remains inaccessible to the community. A century of poor urban planning has divided the neighborhood with highways, elevated train lines, and multi-block building towers. The neighborhood lacks well designed pedestrian or bicycle infrastructure, making many intersections dangerous or difficult to navigate. This project seeks to reframe the school grounds as a next great public space and an entry point for an accessible urban trail system to connect underutilized areas of the Bronx.