Green St. Louis Machine

Green St. Louis Machine An aeroponic gardening program led by Mathews-Dickey within Grand Center Arts, North Side, St. Roch and Pamoja schools. Inspired by Green Bronx Machine. Roch.

Mathews-Dickey Boys’ & Girls’ Club (MDBGC) has taken the lead as the backbone agency in bringing an evidence-based, Disney Channel recognized program from New York City to Saint Louis! Partners include:
The club has partnered with local volunteers and award winning educator Stephen Ritz to create the Green St. Louis Machine Project at MDBGC, Grand Center Arts Academy, North Side Community School,

Pamoja Academy, and St. Stephen Ritz, known for his Green Bronx Machine initiative, is a teacher and administrator who uses gardening, including aeroponic growing technology, Tower Garden®, to grow healthier, more engaged students in the South Bronx. This compact, state-of-the-art, vertical aeroponic growing system fits easily in the classroom. Instead of growing plants in traditional horizontal rows, the system grows plants vertically. With only so much land available to grow food, growing plants vertically makes sense for the Earth’s ever-growing human population. And, given growing water shortages, vertical aeroponic gardening makes sense, because it requires much less water than traditional growing methods. Plants grown aeroponically do not even need soil! Students from Grand Center Arts Academy, North Side Community School, Pamoja Academy and the Mathews-Dickey Swimming Program will be a part of the Green St. Louis Machine using the Next Generation Science Standards. Phase I began October 5, 2015 and concluded with a Harvest event on November 16, 2015 Each partner school received the start up kits from MDBGC and the founding donors at no charge (up to a $3,000 value).

Stephen Ritz delivered message after message of positivity and growth!I’m possible not impossible! Growing CommUNITY! ...
04/12/2023

Stephen Ritz delivered message after message of positivity and growth!
I’m possible not impossible! Growing CommUNITY!
BKG Pamoja CMM Grand Center Arts Academy Northside Community School Woerner Elementary School Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls Green St. Louis Machine Saint Louis Science Center Missouri History Museum Heru Urban Farming MATHEWS DICKEY ALUMNI

And we’re super proud to partner with YOU Stephen Ritz and Green Bronx Machine! Your visit this week was beyond descrip...
04/08/2023

And we’re super proud to partner with YOU Stephen Ritz and Green Bronx Machine! Your visit this week was beyond description!! There are no words to even describe the awesomeness!







It’s all about our !

Proud to partner with Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis MATHEWS DICKEY ALUMNI Green St. Louis Machine Saint Louis Public Schools Saint Louis, Missouri

February 9th the after-school kids made sports veggie skewers (and dipped them in a bit of Aldi ranch if desired).Also s...
03/18/2023

February 9th the after-school kids made sports veggie skewers (and dipped them in a bit of Aldi ranch if desired).
Also some decided to make up a Green St. Louis Machine cheer! They may get to perform it at the Green Gala April 6th!

March 14th was “Hands-On Training for Soul Farmers” with educator and urban farmer, Tyrean Heru Lewis of Heru Urban Far...
03/18/2023

March 14th was “Hands-On Training for Soul Farmers” with educator and urban farmer, Tyrean Heru Lewis of Heru Urban Farming! The program was featured for the after-school kids and the community could also attend! Tastings of mustard greens were served afterwards. Students planted red giant mustard greens, Georgia southern collards, watermelon, and tatsoi mustards, that they will later get to take home to plant in their yard, garden or window.

February 2, the after school students’ green machine program activity was to harvest the fully mature greens, bag them, ...
03/18/2023

February 2, the after school students’ green machine program activity was to harvest the fully mature greens, bag them, and send them home if the students’ families wanted them. We also planted plants from tray of seeds that had become seedlings that grew into baby plants that we planted in the tower gardens! We filled the reservoirs and added nutrients and finally checked the pH!
  
Then the kids had a cucumber snack – they seem to like cucumbers a lot!

February 16th, Missouri Botanical Garden’s John and Jesse did sessions with the Green St Louis Machine after school, kid...
03/18/2023

February 16th, Missouri Botanical Garden’s John and Jesse did sessions with the Green St Louis Machine after school, kids and made seed-balls, /seed-bombs and played a game about plant diversity/invasive species. 

March 2, Tonia and Abbey from Seed St. Louis led the Green St Louis Machine after school kids in programs that involved...
03/18/2023

March 2, Tonia and Abbey from Seed St. Louis led the Green St Louis Machine after school kids in programs that involved worms and botanical journaling!
The snack was Caprese toothpicks made with basil growing in the Tower Gardens. Also, almost everyone wanted to try the balsamic glaze of the Caprese picks! As usual, the kids wanted to smell and taste the herbs and greens!
And of course some of the herbs and greens were fed to the worms!

March 16, botanist John from Missouri Botanical Garden led the 3rd and older after school kids in a session about ...
03/18/2023

March 16, botanist John from Missouri Botanical Garden led the 3rd and older after school kids in a session about
using plastic turtles, birthday candles and even themselves as project props! Crudité cups were served as a snack! (Some of the students liked to taste what is growing in our Tower Gardens.)

March 9th, biologist Amani Lewis of St Louis Community College at Danforth Plant Science Center did an experiment with t...
03/18/2023

March 9th, biologist Amani Lewis of St Louis Community College at Danforth Plant Science Center did an experiment with the after-school kids and “wow” was their reaction to the chemical reaction! 

February 23rd Joia Walker from EarthDance Organic Farm School played a seed identification challenge with after-school k...
03/04/2023

February 23rd Joia Walker from EarthDance Organic Farm School played a seed identification challenge with after-school kids. She is also a chef in addition to being a farmer and she made smoothies for a treat!

March 14th!Open to the public!
02/18/2023

March 14th!
Open to the public!

Urban farmer Heru Adelke’s visit 2/7, to kick off Black History Month and students working on the aeroponic Tower Garden...
02/11/2023

Urban farmer Heru Adelke’s visit 2/7, to kick off Black History Month and students working on the aeroponic Tower Gardens getting ready for his visit. They also harvested and bagged herbs to send home. Joia Walker made mustard greens with what we grew and the kids surprised themselves by liking them!! Heru is the founder and president of Heru Urban Farming.

Honoring the past. Inspiring future.  
02/01/2023

Honoring the past. Inspiring future.







 

Chef Pete and Sami, from Washington University, lead turkey-shaped veggie tray making with Green St Louis Machine after...
11/23/2022

Chef Pete and Sami, from Washington University, lead turkey-shaped veggie tray making with Green St Louis Machine after-school kids Tuesday afternoon as part of our healthy habits programming! Each student took home a veggie tray for their family! They could also sample their favorite veggies after making their veggie tray!
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Keep it healthy!
  

It was a Green St Louis Machine Kraken Cook Off Friday night November 18th, at , led by Emi Belciak, high school science...
11/23/2022

It was a Green St Louis Machine Kraken Cook Off Friday night November 18th, at , led by Emi Belciak, high school science teacher! The students and their teachers invited families and the community in to visit and taste foods made with what they are growing!

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At Northside Community School, Ms Turney‘s second grade class talks about their indoor garden/ tower gardening experiences! #GreenStLouisMachine #GreenSTLMachine #GreenBronxMachineInternational #NorthsideCommunitySchool #SchoolGardening #UrbanGardeningStudents #STEAM

#greenstlmachine Stay tuned for the Green Gala!! Here is a cooking demo!! Recipes and cookbook coming! Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls is teaching life science, indoor gardening and promoting healthy lifestyles for longevity!!

.... they got the last one! #PearPicking #GrandCenterArtsAcademy #GCAA #OldNorthSaintLouis #GreenSTLMachine#MathewsDickey #FoodScience #TakeFoodBack

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Final pear harvest and see what was left .... they got every last pear! ....class #3 Green St. Louis Machine science class from Grand Center Arts Academy

Afternoon science class pear picking field trip video! One of Mathews-Dickey Boys' & Girls' Club’s partner schools, the Grand Center Arts Academy, Green STL Machine science classes taught by Cassandra Lentz harvesting ripe pears growing ignored and utended in a food desert area of St Louis and stay tuned for what they do with them! We probably eat at least three times a day and why not understand the connection of food with health and science every time we eat?!#healthyfood #takinghealthyback #greenstlmachine #pearpower #sustainability #lifescience

Video 2: One of Mathews-Dickey Boys' & Girls' Club’s partner schools, the Grand Center Arts Academy, Green STL Machine science classes taught by Cassandra Lentz harvesting ripe pears growing ignored and utended in a food desert area of St Louis and stay tuned for what they do with them! We probably eat at least three times a day and why not understand the connection of food with health and science every time we eat?!#healthyfood #takinghealthyback #greenstlmachine #pearpower #sustainability #lifescience

One of Mathews-Dickey Boys' & Girls' Club’s partner schools, the Grand Center Arts Academy, Green STL Machine science classes taught by Cassandra Lentz harvesting ripe pears growing ignored and utended in a food desert area of St Louis and stay tuned for what they do with them! We probably eat at least three times a day and why not understand the connection of food with health and science every time we eat?!#healthyfood #takinghealthyback #greenstlmachine #pearpower #sustainability #lifescience

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