Students from both schools visit the garden after school, accompanied by teachers or parents. Today Meredith Hill is the principal of SEED Harlem (School of Earth Exploration and Discovery), a 6th and 7th grade school on 130th Street and Convent Avenue. They fit into the garden’s mission, a big part of which is teaching youth,” Fraidenraich said. “Chickens eat pests and help with weeding and composting. Membership is open to all who are willing to get trained in, and commit to chicken care.
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All members must know how to hold, feed, and put away the chickens. Garden members sign up for chicken-care shifts on a google calendar. Peppers, strawberries, herbs, string beans, tomato plants, onion, arugula and kale can all be found in the garden. The garden, which is a NYC GreenThumb garden, has 10 raised makeshift beds for growing vegetables, and three lower beds for native flowers and flora. While the garden is not legally affiliated with the school, it was originally created “to be an extension of it, a learning space for students,” Fraidenraich explained.
The CSS Community Garden was founded in 2009 by Meredith Hill, who was, at the time, a sixth-grade teacher at the Columbia Secondary School, a public school serving grades 6-12, on Amsterdam and 123rd Street. Lady Sybil was simply being a good (potential) mother and found an excellent hiding spot,” Fraidenraich said.
“In that case, the hen will hide the eggs so they cannot be found or collected. Of course, they’re unfertilized eggs, because we do not have a rooster.”Īccording to Fraidenraich, the behavior can happen when eggs are not collected quickly enough. So they sit and sit and almost never get up to eat or drink. “Every few months the hens get ‘broody’ thinking their eggs are going to hatch and they’ll have chicks.
“The reason the eggs were piled up in the bushes is because of a normal chicken behavior called ‘broodiness,’” she explained. “Lady Sybil lays blue eggs since she is a black iridescent hen,” Fraidenraich said. But interestingly enough, the eggs she was guarding did not all belong to her. “Some people thought she may have found a crack in the fence, everyone was searching everywhere.” The missing chicken poster.įinally, on August 20th, Lady Sybil was found right there in the garden, sitting on a large pile of eggs, hidden in the tall grass. Missing chicken posters were placed in the neighborhood, members posted in local Facebook groups, and Columbia University campus security was alerted. The concern for Lady Sybil’s safety grew quickly and we began to spread the word far and wide,” Fraidenraich said. Garden members gathering the chickens at the end of the day could not find Lady Sybil anywhere. Lady Sybil’s mysterious disappearance on the evening of August 17th was first reported by Patch. All four chickens were raised in school classrooms, before making their official home in the garden, Fraidenraich said. Big Fluff and Penguino, the newer additions, joined them this past year. Patmore (named for Downton Abbey characters) arrived at the garden in 2015 from a small farm on Governors Island. All garden members must be trained in and participate in chicken care, Nicole Fraidenraich, a volunteer and member of the garden’s leadership team told WSR in a phone interview. While the Upper West Side and Manhattan Valley in particular are home to many community gardens, the CSS Community Garden is unique not only does it contain flowers, plants, and vegetable plots, it has a chicken coop.Ĭhickens wander freely in the garden during the day and are put in the coop at night by member volunteers. Lady Sybil is one of four hens who live at the Columbia Secondary School Community Garden on Amsterdam and West 119th Street. She was ultimately found hiding at home, guarding a large pile of eggs that could not possibly all be hers. Lady Sybil, an Upper West Side hen who temporarily went missing, sent her community on a two-day wild chicken chase last week.
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