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Adventure December Calendar

We developed an awesome local adventure calendar in conjunction with our partners at the Child Development Council, to get you outside! A PDF document containing the calendar and activities opens in a new tab, download here. Adventure December! Grab your mask and get outside! Thirty-one

Child holding up a scarecrow that he helped stuff and put together.

Garden Connections Saves the School Day!

This post was written by Ithaca Children’s Garden Communications & Marketing Coordinator, Monique. I don’t have to tell you that 2020 has been a year fraught with challenge, but in case you’re reading this in the future and have somehow forgotten, let me tell you

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Planty Permaculture Partners

Over the last several years, our friends at Edible Acres have been supporting ICG’s mission and purpose by helping youth forge relationships with nature, through an abiding affinity for plants, research-based science, and a permaculture lens. Sean has been a guest of ICG’s Teen Urban

Many Hands at ICG

ICG Loves Volunteers Whether the Garden is ablaze in colorful flowers against a backdrop of neatly trimmed lawns during the summer, or getting tucked into bed as autumn settles in, volunteers and community partners make so much possible. Last weekend, the Garden buzzed with two

Local Schoolyards: Beyond Recess

We had the chance to visit Northeast Elementary last week for a walkabout with Principal Liddy Coyle, and we loved what we saw. Students were at home in their forest edge home base, playing and learning, talking and laughing, moving their bodies, and developing their

ICG’s DEI Committee

ICG is relaunching our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee to provide guidance, support, and accountability to assist ICG in living our values of inclusion and anti-racism. Chaired by Board Member Kartik Sribarra, supported by Communications Coordinator, Monique Caraballo and Executive Director Erin Marteal, and backed

Ithaca schools navigate first week of in-person classes

(Link opens in a new tab) Tompkins Weekly reports on ICSD’s return to in person classes, their challenges and highlights, as well as our partnership with Cornell’s Masters of Public Health Program and others to facilitate that return safely, with outdoor learning spaces.10/14/2020