Critters
A beneficial role of bees, butterflies, and other critters that helps flowers become fruit
What is a Pollinator
This term can be used to refer to any plant that is growing in a place where people might not want it to grow
What is a weed?
This building in the garden contains plants from the desert and rainforest biomes
What is the conservatory?
The adorable and amazing bunny that lives in the Edible Academy
Who is Carver?
This leafy ingredient from the herb wall is popular in Italian cooking dishes and can be used to make pesto and cherry burst pasta
What is basil?
This is a large bird of prey with talons that can be found soaring above the garden
What is a red tailed hawk?
a method of planting that involves moving a plant that has already grown somewhere else into a new area
What is transplanting?
The current exhibition in the garden is themed after this famous impressionist painter
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
These 8 garden beds are managed by Brooke and highlight different community gardens in New York City
What are the Barnsley Beds?
A delicious Chilean salsa that can be made with ingredients from the garden
What is Pebre?
an animal or plant that comes from somewhere else, and is harmful to the local environment
What is an invasive species?
This handheld garden tool, often mistaken for a shovel, is used for digging in the garden
What is a trowel?
The forest we go through every day on our way to and from the garden entrance
What is the Thain Family Forest?
In order to save water we use this type of toilet that does not flush
What is a composting toilet?
This Mediterranean salad is made with chopped vegetables mixed with couscous
What is Tabouli?
A group of aquatic invertebrates including crabs, crawfish, scuds, and crabs
What is a crustacean?
This is the process plants use to convert sunlight into energy
What is photosynthesis?
This is the only freshwater river in New York city and flows through the NYBG
What is the Bronx River?
This is the classroom that has a name that is abbreviated to the EAT lab
What is the Edible Academy Technology Lab?
The process of soaking ingredients in heated water to extract their flavors
What is steeping?
The part of the earthworm that is a band between its segments that can indicate maturity
What is the clitellum?
This sticky part in the middle of the flower receives pollen produced by the anthers
What is a stigma?
This trail in the garden takes you through a wet area home to many unique bird species
What is the Mitsubishi Wetland Trail?
This is the giant caterpillar made of plants near the Solar Pavillion
Who is Munchie
This process combines water with carbon dioxide to create a fizzy drink
what is carbonation?