August 5, 2017: Seventh walk of our 4th season! Unlike our other walks, we started our day off at noon! Thankfully, it was overcast and it wasn’t too humid, making it a great weather for our walk on Ecology. After waiting for all of our families to sign up and take a quick quiz, Cappy…
2017 Play #2
Click here for full album July 29, 2017: Play #2 Sixth walk of our 4th season! Due to a slight morning drizzle, families were slow to trickle into the park for the walk. But as the grey clouds turned out to be less threatening than they appeared, parents with their children began arriving at Poor…
2017 Greenmarkets #1
Click here for full album July 8, 2017: Greenmarkets #1 Fifth walk of our 5th season! We started the day off with a short lesson on nutrition at Poor Richard’s Playground from Cappy. The kids were asked about foods they know and the purpose of food. We learned that eating the whole fruit is better…
2017 Play #1
Click here for full album June 24, 2017: Play Fourth walk of our 4th season! Though we were expecting rain, we were blessed with the perfect weather. The sun shined, and we were ready for play! We began our walk at Poor Richard’s Playground as usual, and while waiting for everyone to gather, the children…
2017 Child Development
Click here for full album June 3, 2017: Child Development Third walk of our 4th season! Perfect weather and a great group of folks made for a fantastic new walk in our repertoire. Child development encompasses the physical, cognitive and emotional development of children. A lot of what families do in their everyday lives, and…
2017 Women’s Health
Click here for full album May 20, 2017: Women’s Health Second walk of our 4th season! Last year we launched our women’s health programming, with a walk to the student-run clinic at Mt. Sinai to learn about cancer screening, and a visit to the Institute for Family Health (IFH) to learn about reproductive services. This…
2017 Garden to Garden
Click here for full album April 29, 2017: Garden to Garden First walk of our 4th season! Our fourth season kicked off with a scenic tour of the neighborhood from our home base at Poor Richard’s Playground to the French Garden section of the Central Park Conservatory to Chenchita’s Garden, our favorite community garden in…
2016 Wealth
Click here for full album August 20, 2016: Wealth Another hot day and another hot topic—wealth. Wealth disparities underlie essentially all our other health topics. It’s hard to “fix” a health problem like asthma without acknowledging that wealth determines the stress on the household, determines the quality of the housing (mold, pests, pesticides), determines the…
2016 Ecology
(Click here if unable to view slideshow.) August 13, 2016: Ecology Must have been the hottest day of the year! Our first visit to Wards and Randalls Island was a great interactive experience. (Ever wonder why the island has two names? It used to be two separate islands that were joined with landfill. The Little…
2016 Nutrition & Fitness
(Click here if unable to view slideshow.) July 23, 2016: Nutrition & Fitness Our first Greenmarket walk of the season! Always a popular one, not the least because of Health Bucks! We emphasized the connection between nutrition and fitness. There is a lot of “information” out there about what food you should eat. Some of…