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Showing posts with label School Garden Profiles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label School Garden Profiles. Show all posts
6/19/10
Cesar Chevez Elementary School in Hyattsville, Md
The Earth Day Network Organization worked with Cesar Chevez Elementary School in Hyattsville, Md. to construct the ultimate sustainable garden on the school grounds.
5/9/10
Farm to School - Garden-Based Learning
Farm to School connects schools with local farms with the objectives of serving healthy meals in school cafeterias, improving student nutrition, providing health and nutrition education opportunities that will last a lifetime, and supporting California’s farmers. This video highlights the garden based learning element.
http://www.cafarmtoschool.org/
2/18/10
Full Circle Farm - "A school district's Farm"
Full Circle Farm is an 11-acre organic, educational farm that puts fresh food in Santa Clara Unified School District cafeterias while helping local youth experience success while they develop job and life skills through the growing, harvesting and marketing of fruit & vegetable crops. Learn more at http://www.fullcirclesunnyvale.org/
Citysprouts an Effective School Gardening Program!
Citysprouts helps a Cambridge, MA school district create learning gardens in 12 schoolyards, and supports teachers' use of the gardens as a direct extension of their classroom teaching. During the 2008-2009 school year they documented 73% of classroom teachers using the garden at least once. Learn more at www.citysprouts.org
Learn more about regional support networks for school gardens.
1/14/10
"Food, What?!" Youth Program
Eco Company TV created this video on Life Lab's Spring Afterschool Internship. It aired across the nation on over 100 TV stations. Check out more at Eco Company http://www.eco-company.tv/tvshow/episode-102-organic-growing
More on "Food,What?!"
3/9/09
1/31/09
Project Food Lab
They really have something great going at Pacific Elementary School in Davenport, CA. Since 1984 the Food Lab Program, in cooperation with the school's Life Lab Garden Program, has been cooking the school lunch for students and staff!
5/4/08
Edna Maguire School Garden Video Page
Edna Maguire School Garden (Mill Valley, CA) has a garden video page of the following:
A 2008 Lady Bug Release Celebration.
Giving Tree Planting Day at the Children's Garden, on January 19, 2008.
This is a great 6 minute overview of their garden program featured on the TV show "Everyday Angels"
Everyday Angels - Childrens Garden from Edna Maguire on Vimeo.
6/10/06
The Garden School Foundation
A 10 minute video on the creation of a school garden project at the 24th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles. Students and adults comment on the transformation of an asphalt slab to a garden project. View video at their website.
Who: The Garden School Foundation is a coalition of citizens, businesses, and community organizations. Our founding members include chef Nancy Silverton, teacher Linda Slater, principal Grace Yoon, designer Karen Haas, United Neighborhood Council representative Marva Maxey, the garden design firm Nancy Goslee Power & Associates, and La Brea Bakery.
What: A community partnership with Los Angeles Unified School District dedicated to bringing verdant traffic buffers, sports facilities, native gardens, science gardens, kitchen gardens, and teaching kitchens to public schools.
Where: Our prototype is 24th Street Elementary School in central Los Angeles.
Why: Because schools should be like parks not prisons; the best way to learn about good food is to grow it; and children have to know nature to love it.
When: Negotiations with the district began in September 2003, a partnership was struck in 2004, and a temporary courtyard teaching garden was dug by Garden School Foundation volunteers, teachers, and students in May 2005. Construction on the main yard, with LAUSD following a prototype plan developed by Nancy Goslee Power & Associates, began in January 2006. The half-acre teaching garden is currently being developed. Students are planting vegetables and the designers are finalizing plans to include a garden shed, council circles, and straw paths throughout the space. A kitchen classroom will be created by adapting an old LAUSD bungalow with support of the local catering community.
Who: The Garden School Foundation is a coalition of citizens, businesses, and community organizations. Our founding members include chef Nancy Silverton, teacher Linda Slater, principal Grace Yoon, designer Karen Haas, United Neighborhood Council representative Marva Maxey, the garden design firm Nancy Goslee Power & Associates, and La Brea Bakery.
What: A community partnership with Los Angeles Unified School District dedicated to bringing verdant traffic buffers, sports facilities, native gardens, science gardens, kitchen gardens, and teaching kitchens to public schools.
Where: Our prototype is 24th Street Elementary School in central Los Angeles.
Why: Because schools should be like parks not prisons; the best way to learn about good food is to grow it; and children have to know nature to love it.
When: Negotiations with the district began in September 2003, a partnership was struck in 2004, and a temporary courtyard teaching garden was dug by Garden School Foundation volunteers, teachers, and students in May 2005. Construction on the main yard, with LAUSD following a prototype plan developed by Nancy Goslee Power & Associates, began in January 2006. The half-acre teaching garden is currently being developed. Students are planting vegetables and the designers are finalizing plans to include a garden shed, council circles, and straw paths throughout the space. A kitchen classroom will be created by adapting an old LAUSD bungalow with support of the local catering community.
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