Green Bronx Machine is known all around the world for our project-based, STEM – STEAM learning experiences, health, wellness, cooking, culinary, gardening programs, and Tower Garden installations. Our programs address food insecurity, workforce development, food access, pedagogy, professional development, classroom experiences, and inspire healthy living and learning for students and teachers, all around the world!
PBS Let's Learn NYC
Green Bronx Machine is on PBS! Join Mister Ritz as he explores the world with a whole cast of characters. Green Bronx Machine appears in segments of “Let’s Learn NYC.” Episodes air weekdays on WLIW 21 at 9am and WNET 13 at 11am. See the Green Bronx Machine website for full schedule of new episodes.
Tower to Table to Tummy
Join Mister Ritz as he creates and prepares wonderful fresh recipes straight off his Tower Garden! These recipes are child-tested and approved and focus on teaching math, fractions, and parts-to-whole. Feel free to substitute ingredients, and enjoy the academic and math-based approached to making Tower Garden cooking fun, easy, and delicious, in under ten minutes!
Food For Others Garden
Green Bronx Machine operates a Food for Others Farm in the Bronx which provides training and Summer Youth Employment generating over 5,000 pounds of vegetables annually – 100% of which are given to local families and used for workforce development training through Part of the Solution.
Partnership with Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital
Green Bronx Machine partners with Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital to produce 400 bags of student-grown leafy greens and vegetables every month, which are distributed locally to food insecure senior citizens who are recovering from cancer and live in public housing.
PS 721
Green Bronx Machine designed, built, and continues to support the first year-round, wheelchair-accessible urban farm and culinary training kitchen in the nation. Modeled after The National Health, Wellness & Learning Center, this unique and 100% accessible classroom allows special needs students…
Jonathan Toews Foundation
Green Bronx Machine is proud to partner with the Jonathan Toews Foundation and the Chicago Blackhawks to bring Tower Gardens and Green Bronx Machine Classroom Curriculum to schools across Chicagoland. Recently named the Chicagoan Of The Year for his work with Green Bronx Machine, Jonathan…
Stepping Stones Residential Treatment Center
Green Bronx Machine, in partnership with Stepping Stones and Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, is building the first ever commercial farm fully staffed and run by foster-care youth. This hydroponic vertical farm, built in a specialized green house in Appalachia, is a completely commercial endeavor and will…
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield
Green Bronx Machine, in partnership with Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, is helping to further Stephen Ritz’ vision of building healthy communities. Together they are working to implement the Green Bronx Machine Classroom Curriculum in 25 classrooms in 22 cities across 19 states in the next 18 months…
Green Bronx Machine Institute - NYC DOE & SUNY
Green Bronx Machine is proud to partner with the New York City Department of Education and the State University of New York to provide professional development, resources, and technical training in the art and science of urban farming aligned to all content subject area instruction. The State University…
Qatar Foundation International
Green Bronx Machine is proud to partner with Qatar Foundation International to create a global community of diverse learners and educators and connect them through effective collaborative learning environments both inside and outside of the classroom. Qatar Foundation International translated the Green…