An immersive, whole-school curriculum that grows high performing schools and happy, healthy children
Green Bronx Machine’s Classroom Curriculum is an award-winning, standards-aligned, all-subject and project-based curriculum. Using indoor learning gardens and a whole-school wellness approach, we instill and inspire lifelong healthy habits and achieve academic success.
Grow something greater with us
Bring our K-12 curriculum to your classroom
Our easy-to-implement, whole-school curriculum aligns the art and science of growing vegetables with daily academic instruction in all subject areas.
Explore free educational resources
Access educational tools supported by videos and hands-on materials, available grants, no-heat easy-to-prepare recipes, and all episodes of our award-winning children’s tv show.
Donate and support our students
We run on your support. Your donations help grow healthy students, high-performing schools, and pathways for jobs, wellness, and community transformation.
What people are saying about our curriculum
“It is not at all about the instructors, it is about the children, creating their own environment and solutions. It is creating this sense of wonder for children to explore and discover. It encourages discovery and critical thinking – skills that can be used in any aspect of life.”
Dr. Katie Wilson, USDA, Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services
“Green Bronx Machine is an incredible, powerful program to engage and excite our students. I’d like to see us connect the dots and expand this statewide so Green Bronx Machine becomes a New York State banner for all the amazing work that they’re doing.”
Dr. Betty Rosa, New York State Commissioner of Education
“We all need to be aware of the problems facing our country with access to healthy foods and the concerns of childhood obesity, and Green Bronx Machine finds solutions to these issues.”
Chef José Andrés, Founder, World Central Kitchen
Green Bronx Machine’s global impact
Our curriculum is used in thousands of schools worldwide
Watch Let’s Learn with Mister Ritz
our award-winning, critically-acclaimed documentary
Health and educational outcomes in low-income areas across America are staggeringly low. Bronx educator Stephen Ritz is on a mission to change all that through an incredibly successful indoor gardening curriculum that helps children grow vegetables in the classroom, eat better, engage more deeply with school, and discover pathways for jobs.
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