Agriculture Literacy Day 2013

By the Numbers… Agriculture Literacy Week 2013

26 schools
96 classrooms
5 boroughs
2,356 students
1 high school partnership
34 volunteers
100% of books donated (Cornell Cooperative Extension and Random House)
24 jars of honey donated (Let it Bee Honey)
0 sick or late volunteers

Even a Spring snowstorm couldn’t keep our volunteers and schools from teaching 2nd graders all over New York City about urban beekeeping and the process of making honey on a rooftop in Brooklyn. As part of this years New York Agriculture Literacy Week

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, Spoons trained volunteers from all over New York City visited 2nd grade classrooms throughout New York City to read The Honeybee Man by Lela Nargi and Kristin Booker. After reading this beautifully illustrated story describing the process of beekeeping and honey collecting on a rooftop in Brooklyn, students participated in a sequencing activity tied to Common Core educational standards and were given some honey to sample and a recipe for honey vinaigrette to take home and share with their families.

Here is a sampling of pictures from the week: For more photos of this and other programs, visit our FACEBOOK page.