This Video Blog is Continued at The New www.lifelab.org

Hi all,

We have continued posting videos related to garden based learning on our new website. View all posts labeled "videos"

This site still has a lot of great school garden type videos to view. Enjoy

Great Collection of Gardening How To

GrowingWisdom.com has an extensive collection of garden tip videos. The section most relevant to school gardeners is the Vegetable and Herbs Section.

Here is a timely video for those wanting to plant container lettuce this fall.

Growing Wisdom with Dave Epstein :: Vegetables & Herbs

South Carolina High School Students Talking School Gardens

http://scschoolgardens.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-school-gardens.html

California's Green Schools on CNN

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.

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/

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.

"Back Pocket" Garden Activities

Back Pocket Garden Activities (View all ten activities from this player, click the arrows)
The following videos demonstrate what we, here at Life Lab, refer to as "back pocket activities." These are all quick, easy, and highly engaging activities that require minimal preparation. We suggest always having one or more of these activities ready to go (or "in your back pocket") in case your lesson ends a few minutes early, or you have a few kids to keep occupied while the others are finishing a task. From searching for the colors of the rainbow to making jewelry from flowers, the activities featured in these videos can be done again and again, with kids seeing and learning new things each time they do them.

"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?!"

Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden

The Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden (CSYSG) Video Series is a part of the CSYSG Training Model. This workshop has been given to over a thousand educators in California and it includes the California School Garden Network's book Gardens for Learning, participant handouts, and trainer outlines.

These resources can used for those training others on starting school gardens or by those wanting to learn basic garden skills.

View the video and training materials here: http://www.csgn.org/csysgvideo.php

Urban Sprouts Cooking Collard Wontons

Urban Sprouts in action preparing freshly harvested collards into delicious, simple, gourmet snacks!

Worm Composting

Learn to compost with worms. Video goes over selecting a container, starting a worm bin, caring and troubleshooting.

Worm Composting Basics http://www.compostsantacruzcounty.org/Home_Composting/Worm_Composting/index.htm

The Worm Guide: Vermicomposting Guide for Teachers http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/schools/Curriculum/Worms/default.htm

Additional Worm Composting Links http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/schools/Links/Garden.htm

http://www.compostsantacruzcounty.org/School_Composting/links.htm

LAUSD High School Gardeners

Life Lab's 30th Birthday

Life Lab turned 30th and we celebrated with a garden party for the community. Check out our cake that was so big that it didn't fit through the door and how the Banana Slug String Band rocked the garden tunes. Learn more about our birthday events throughout the year.

Center St. School Garden in LA

Center Street School's new garden

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!

CDFA and School Gardens

A strong supporter of school gardens CDFA Secretary A.G. Kawamura visits a school in Santa Monica, California, where the students and their instructors use their school garden as both a teaching and a learning tool. The CDFA has its own video page and kids page.

Compost on California Heartland TV

This California Heartland TV program segment talks composting. The best part of this video is the last two minutes where various types of bins are being demonstrated for the home/school scale system. I concur with the Fair Oaks Hort Center staff that the simpler bins are better.
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Gardening How To

Fine Gardening has over 40 videos on basic gardening techniques, crafts, design tips and more. While primarily focused for the perennial growing home gardener many of the video topics are relevant to the school gardener. http://www.taunton.com/finegardening/Videos/