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...
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...
Oct 14, 2024 | Green News
On Tuesday October 1, the Upper School Garden Club hosted the annual Honey Harvest. All divisions were in attendance, with the room being packed during all four sessions of the event. As usual, there was a lesson about the life cycle and importance of bees by the...
Sep 18, 2024 | Green News
Teachers have wasted no time this fall in bringing students up to the garden to take advantage of the late-summer ecosystem. From sixth graders practicing their observational skills for science and understanding ancient grains for history, to dig students serving...
