Mission: “Green Bronx Machine builds healthy, equitable, and resilient communities through inspired education, local food systems, and 21st Century workforce development. Dedicated to cultivating minds and harvesting hope, our school-based model using urban agriculture aligned to key school performance indicators grows healthy students and healthy schools to transform communities that are fragmented and marginalized into neighborhoods that are inclusive and thriving.”

What they produce: Produce, healthy students, high-performing schools, graduates, registered voters, living wage jobs and members of the middle class!

Whom they serve: Their local South Bronx community, students, families and Sloan Kettering cancer patients. Additionally, GBM serves schools in all five-boroughs in multiple languages including the first wheelchair accessible commercial farm and training kitchen in NYC and offers GBM Institute in partnership with NYC Department of Education.

Onsite programs: The National Health, Wellness and Learning Center at CS 55 complete with indoor / outdoor farm / technology hub / low-cost, highly replicable, intercative classroom, afterschool and summe camp programs, and the largest, organic soil farm in the Bronx.

Founded: 2014

Interesting fact: Green Bronx Machine has been ranked a Top Ten Health and Wellness Program in America by the Harkin Institute and named a Top 100 Educational Innovation in the world for three consecutive years by HundrEd. Invited to the Obama White House three times, GBM is the only program in the US to install gardens both inside and outside of the White House. GBM is proud to be featured in the new documentary, Generation Growth.