The VictoryGrower website supports the notion that gardening is an excellent way to increase food security (the amount and quality of food) in America. Gardening enables youth, families and entire communities to improve their access to Good Food.
This section of VictoryGrower provides information about successful historical gardening efforts that have made a real difference in American life, including Liberty and Victory Garden programs, the US School Gardening Army, etc.
http://groups.ucanr.org/victorygrower/Historical_Models/
On the following page you can find examples of current public policies that are successfully promoting school, home, or community garden efforts across the United States. It includes The California School Garden Story PowerPoint Presentation, a historical look at GBL in California as well as a summary of CA Assembly Bill 1535 http://groups.ucanr.org/victorygrower/Whats_New_Public_Policies_that_Work_/The_California_School_Garden_Story.htm
5/10/08
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.
4/10/08
Common Vision Fruit Tree Planting
Fruit Tree Tour episode of the show Natural Heroes won an emmy. The award-winning show was based on the DVD Planting the Vision. The special episode aired on PBS across the nation. This award is a huge tribute to programs like Natural Heroes and the featured groups that are working for positive change. Common Vision hopes many more people will see the show and be inspired to plant a tree in their community!
View more multimedia at the Common Vision Blog
Watch a 6-minute trailer for the DVD "Planting the Vision" below.
3/10/08
Carthay Center School Garden of Possibliities
See the transformation of the Carthay Center Elementary School Garden (Los Angeles)from an asphalt slab to a thriving garden.
2/10/08
Growing Chefs
Discover some Vancouver chefs have decided to share their love of food - and growing it from scratch with some eager young apprentices at local elementary schools. Take a look at Living Vancouver
6/11/07
The Power of School Gardens
This presentation was created as an introduction to CSGN's Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden Workshop. It can be downloaded, along with other CSYSG workshop materials at: http://www.csgn.org/page.php?id=75
6/10/07
Kids in the Garden
15-Program DVD Series Wacky, wild and full of wonder, Kids in the Garden is a colorful new series for young gardeners that will inspire kids to get their hands dirty. Join Nick Hardcastle as he puts the fun in fungi, makes a mini terrarium jungle, and acts like a vegetable allowing young viewers to discover just how strange and intriguing gardening can be.
These Programs encourage environmental stewardship and promote a healthy lifestyle while the kids (and adults) enjoy discovering the science of our natural world. Each program includes hands on activities with project lists and are closed captioned.
These Programs encourage environmental stewardship and promote a healthy lifestyle while the kids (and adults) enjoy discovering the science of our natural world. Each program includes hands on activities with project lists and are closed captioned.
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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