UWS School Launching New Garden With Chicken-Naming Ceremony

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — An Upper West Side school that educates its students with a particular focus on climate change is opening a garden that will host farmer's markets and concerts this spring.

It will also serves as the home to 11 chickens.

The Urban Assembly School for Green Careers will be opening its Teaching Garden at 84th and Amsterdam on Thursday.

The first student-run farm stand and festival will take place on Thursday, with additional festivals and farm stands planned through the end of June.

The farm stand will sell fresh New York grown produce and local food that includes fruits, vegetables, eggs, herbs, pastas, and bee products from hives located within the garden.

All the proceed benefits will go toward the Upper West Side school.

In honor of the opening, the school will also be hosting a chicken-naming ceremony for the 11 chickens that reside in the garden.

ILoveTheUpperWestSide, which was the first publication to report on the new garden, detailed the student-chosen names as following: Valentine, Nugget, Platano, Mocha, Durden Jr., Henrietta, Cluch Vader, Albert Eggstein, Hen Solo, Chicken Little, and Peewee.

The farm stand project is also part of a wider Upper West Side collaboration with Jacob's Pickles, The Green City Force, The Hort, and Council Member Gale Brewer.