The 2 acre school garden at Buffalo Academy of Science Charter School II sits at 335 Doat Street in the Schiller Park neighborhood, where the BuffSci network, a tuition-free K-12 STEM public charter school system, established its second campus serving pre-K through 5th grade students. The school carries a science-centered mission that treats hands-on inquiry as the pathway to college readiness, making its outdoor growing spaces and basement level indoor grow-space a natural extension of the classroom. Prior to 2026, these urban agricultural spaces existed with untapped potential, awaiting a dedicated program to activate them.

In early 2026, East Side Stewards formalized a partnership with Principal Brianna Lanoye. That foundation grew into the Junior Bison Summer Program, running four days a week from mid-July through early August, where elementary students learn about the environment, cultivate raised beds and build early relationships with soil, plants, and each other through urban agriculture and land stewardship.