2024
2022 - 2023 Hydroponics Lab Update
Our Hydroponic Lab is currently open and running! There are still some things that need to be finished up, but we are enjoying our soft opening! See some pictures below.
2021 - 2022 - Hydroponics Lab Remodel
With funding from the Office of Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Junior and the Office of District 8 Councilwoman Diana Ayala, we are in the process of a massive renovation of our hydroponics lab, and we are building a second lab! The labs will have new hydroponics and aquaponics equipment, full kitchens for our farm to table program, and massive glass windows for natural light for our plants.
2019-2020 - Aquaponics!
This November, we will be getting tilapia as fingerlings. We will grow plants in the system, and harvest the fish in June.
New for 2018-2019! Our horticulture classroom is growing...
For the first time ever, the J.M. Rapport School for Career Development is offering a full year Horticulture class! Students learn to grow plants with state of the art hydroponics systems and equipmewnt as well as through conventional soil-based farming. Students start all plants from seed, and harvest and cook what they grow! We raise chickens and compost our food scraps in worm bins. This year we will be adding an aquaponics system to raise tilapia and greens, and we will be raising ducks from eggs!