Officials break ground on NYC’s first public school ‘food forest’ in the Bronx

After a multi-year effort, elected officials broke ground on the city’s first public school “food forest” at the Adlai Stevenson Educational Campus on July 15. One year of work has already been completed to transform the former garden and apple orchard behind the Soundview campus into a 46,000-square-foot forest ecosystem where students will engage in hands-on learning about food systems, climate, sustainability, nutrition and more. Next, work proceeds to the capital