Education

Health Check: Fun Ways to Learn Breastfeeding Facts during National Breastfeeding Month

By CLAIRE GARON
Happy National Breastfeeding Month! By now, you’ve likely heard about the many benefits of breastfeeding. Breastmilk is the ideal nutrition for baby’s growing brain and body. Breastfeeding can also improve mom’s health, lowering her risk for diabetes, some cancers, and heart disease. In fact, people like to say that breastfeeding is a superpower! This National Breastfeeding Month, we’re sharing (fictional) stories of how popular superheroes made breastfeeding work, by following four important tips.

Volunteers Clean VCP Pond as “Daylighting” of Tibbetts Brook Advances

By JOSÉ A. GIRALT
For most of the year, visitors to Van Cortlandt Park’s Hester & Piero’s Mill Pond are usually entertained by throngs of duck and geese flying and landing on the water. However, when the weather gets warm, an unwelcome, invasive guest makes an appearance, hindering the fowls’ routine of take-off and landing. That invader goes by the name “water chestnut.”

P.S. / M.S. 95 Students Hone Governance Skills   

By P.S. / M.S. STAFF
UNDER THE DIRECTION of Principal Serge Marshall Davis, a multi-layered, student government is currently active at P.S./M.S. 95, The Sheila Mencher School, located in Van Cortlandt Village. Instructional coach and student council advisor, Andrea Faulkner, says students are encouraged to join the student council to broaden their educational experience.

2nd Food & Farm Walking Tour Takes in Bedford Park & Norwood  

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The 2nd Bronx Food & Farm Walking Tour of 2023 around the historic Bedford Park and Norwood neighborhoods took place on Saturday, July 22, in conjunction with New York Botanical Garden/Bronx Green-Up, Montefiore Einstein, Friends of Mosholu Parkland, The James Baldwin Outdoor Learning Center, and B Blossom Catering, a plant-based gourmet food company.

Food Program ‘Prescribing’ Fresh Produce Launches in The Bronx

By ARIEL PACHECO
Healthcare professionals will now get the opportunity to prescribe healthy fresh foods to select families in The Bronx through a new pilot program. Retail chain, Stop & Shop, The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM), About Fresh nonprofit, and Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson announced the launch of a new program on July 12.