Apr 15, 2025 | Green News
On Sunday, 4/6, a group of over thirty volunteers gathered in the garden to prepare it for the planting season. Over the course of four hours, we were able to accomplish a tremendous amount of work: All of the beds (and the pollinator border) were fertilized with...
Mar 10, 2025 | Green News
Over the past few weeks, the Upper School Garden Club has been working on building two new compost tumblers to restore old ones which had rusted through. This work was more or less concluded on Friday, March 7 with the installation of one of the new tumblers next to...
Nov 19, 2024 | Green News
On Sunday, November 17, over twenty students, parents, and members of the faculty and staff gathered to prepare the garden for the winter. The biggest job was gathering up the nets, cages, and trellises that had been left behind after the fall harvest. Although this...
Nov 21, 2024 | Green News
By Shreya Patel On November 7, the Environmental Club hosted a field trip to the Tenafly Nature Center for an invasive species removal event. The initiative aimed to combat the growing threat of invasive plants that disrupt the natural ecosystem, halting native plant...
Oct 18, 2024 | Green News
On Thursday 10/17, the Upper School Garden Club organized a field trip to the Center for Food Action Garden in Englewood, NJ. This garden, maintained by a group of volunteers, many of them D-E students who help out over the summer, provides fresh, organic produce to...
Oct 18, 2024 | Green News
On Tuesday October 15, the seventh grade DIG (Dwight-Englewood in the Garden) class went on a field trip to the American Museum of Natural History to learn about the important role that insects play in a variety of ecosystems. This comes as part of a narrower unit on...
