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Summertime in the School Garden:
Exploring Opportunities to Support and Share Your School Garden
Presenters: Danielle Fleury with Emily Jackson
Summertime presents both unique challenges and important opportunities when it comes to school gardens. Who takes care of the garden when school is out? How can the school garden be connected to summer learning and healthy food access opportunities?
In our community's next webinar, Mary Stein, Associate Director of the National Farm to School Network, hosts two partners from the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project and the USDA-FNS for a discussion of various aspects of school gardens in summer. You will hear examples ofhow school gardens across the country are connecting to important summer feeding program sites and other out-of-school educational opportunities.
Then, learn about how Cooperative Extension, Master Gardeners, YMCAs, universities, parent coalitions and more can connect your school garden to the community during the summer break. Join us on May 28th for ideas and steps to take to connect with community partners to make the most of your school garden during the summer months.
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Healthy Food + Healthy Ecosystems = Healthy Neighborhoods
(A Summer Garden Program for Middle School Youth)
Presenters: Brad Pillen and Meg Giuliano, CitySprouts Garden Educators
Middle schoolers can get a lot out of the school garden experience, from growing food to learning about the science underlying the natural world. At CitySprouts summer youth program in Cambridge, MA, 100 young people ages 11-13 go through a month-long summer internship program at various schoolyard garden locations.
Middle school interns learn garden skills and how to care for their school garden - planting, weeding, watering and harvesting food for lunch. They go on field trips to hunger-relief organizations, grocery stores, and farms outside the city to get a bigger picture of their local food system. They also learn about the interdependent relationships that exist among parts of an ecosystem as they explore the compost, the garden soil and water catchment systems in the school garden.
In this webinar Brad Pillen and Meg Giuliano, two CitySprouts Garden Educators, will present about using school gardens in the summertime. They will share with us how CitySprouts connects and engages 6th-8th graders with STEM core ideas and food systems through their Out-of-School Time Service Learning Curriculum that connects to the new Next Generation-aligned standards for 6th grade ecosystems. Join Brad and Meg to learn more about summer garden programs for middle school youth.
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School gardens are a growing initiative to help children understand where their food comes from and how their food choices impact their bodies, the environment, and their communities at large.
A school garden can have an impact on the entire life and educational program of school and the surrounding community. Gardening activities can be incorporated into nearly every curriculum subject to enhance the appreciation of the natural world, and to provide hands-on learning activities for students.
As a member of the community, you'll receive...
- Invitations to free webinars and live chats.
- A CE certificate for attending/viewing our webinars.
- Access to all of the recorded webinars, presentations, resources, and online discussions.
This online learning community is a place for educators, gardeners, parents, and community volunteers to come together to share information and resources on how to start and maintain a school garden, and integrate it into the curriculum and the life of a school.
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