Gardening, Farming, Food & Permaculture
Pairing Autoethnography with Biocultural Diversity in Botanical Gardens
Dr. David Zandvliet, Ph.D., Simon Fraser University Professor and UNESCO Chair Chantal Martin Director, Education & Research Vancouver Botanical Gardens Association Poh Tan PhD (UBC, Exp. Medicine), PhD (SFU, Education) Scientist, Researcher, Educator, Author,...
Living Soil and Composting: Life’s Lessons in Learning Gardens
Living Soil and Composting: Life's Lessons in Learning Gardens by Dilafruz Williams and Jonathan Brown, Portland State University After we spread the chicken poop, we covered it with hay… the poop was the fertilizer and the hay was the stuff that kept the plants warm....
Abernethy Elementary’s Farm-to-School and School Garden Program (plus Corvallis and CREST)
In Pursuit of Environmental Literacy: Abernethy Elementary’s Farm-to-School and School Garden Program by Sarah Sullivan At Abernethy Elementary, students enjoy freshly cooked breakfasts and lunches prepared on site by a trained chef. The meals are often prepared with...
Cultivating Environmental Literacy and Sustainable Food through a Community Ambassador Program
Cultivating Environmental Literacy and Sustainable Food through a Community Ambassador Program by Jessica Day, Claudia Ludwig, and Nitin S. Baliga, Institute for Systems Biology Project Feed 1010 (PF1010) was founded in 2015 in response to a need identified by...
Tend, Gather and Grow
A Teaching Toolkit Connecting Students with Plants, Places, and Cultural Traditions By Kim Gaffi, Mariana Harvey (Yakama) and Elise Krohn Educating younger generations on the gifts of the land has always been a cornerstone of Indigenous teachings to strengthen mind,...
GSY: Understanding Green Schoolyards
Special Issue: Understanding Green Schoolyards Picture a noisy elementary classroom, with bustling kids cleaning up from a morning of schoolwork. Then see the doors swing open and they head outside for some fresh air and play. Some students make a straight line right...
Embracing the Unfamiliar Through Adventurous Eating with an Equity Lens
Embracing the Unfamiliar Through Adventurous Eating with an Equity Lens By Caroline Bargo Adventure Awaits As I began exploring the IslandWood campus in August it became abundantly clear that the garden would be one of my favorite places here on the 255-acres...
Permaculture Garden
Care for Self, Care for Others, Care for the Land: How Springwater Environmental Sciences School Uses Their Permaculture Garden as a Microcosm for the Environment. Kaci Rae Christopher t first, starting a school garden that combined permaculture and science seemed...
Teach a School to Garden…
Teach a School to Garden… by Brandi Mendenall Central High School Springfield, Missouri s I watched the dump truck unload what would be the first of three loads of the highest quality compost our small school club could afford, I could not help but wonder if we really...
Why Garden in School? (Part 4)
Can School Gardening Help Save Civilization? (An Essay in Four Parts) by Carter D. Latendresse The Catlin Gabel School Abstract This paper is an argument for gardening in schools, focusing on two months of integrated English-history sixth grade curriculum that...
Why Garden in School (Part 3)
Can School Gardening Help Save Civilization? (An Essay in Four Parts) by Carter D. Latendresse The Catlin Gabel School Abstract This paper is an argument for gardening in schools, focusing on two months of integrated English-history sixth grade curriculum that...
Why Garden in School (Part 2)
Can School Gardening Help Save Civilization? (An Essay in Four Parts) by Carter D. Latendresse The Catlin Gabel School Portland, Oregon Abstract This paper is an argument for gardening in schools, focusing on two months of integrated English-history sixth grade...
Why Garden in School (Part 1)
Can School Gardening Help Save Civilization? (An Essay in Four Parts) by Carter D. Latendresse The Catlin Gabel School Abstract This paper is an argument for gardening in schools, focusing on two months of integrated English-history sixth grade curriculum that...
Integrating STEM and Sustainability through Learning Gardens
Integrating STEM and Sustainability Education through Learning Gardens: A Place-Based Approach to the Next Generation Science Standards by Sybil S. Kelley and Dilafruz R. Williams; Portland State University ur ecological and social problems are deeply...
The Blessed Moment: Promise for Preparing Integrative Learners and Leaders
The symbolic act of learning and living sustainability in the future should intermingle the fabric of natural systems and human made social systems by Pramod Parajuli, Ph.D. Doctoral Program in Sustainability Education Prescott College Introduction The hundreds of...
Teaching Teachers in a Learning Garden: Two Metaphors
by Veronica Gaylie University of British Columbia Introduction There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played.grow wild according to thy nature...let the thunder rumble...take shelter under the cloud...Enjoy the land, but own...
Why Care About Pollinators?
Many people think only of allergies when they hear the word pollen. But pollination — the transfer of pollen grains to fertilize the seed-producing ovaries of flowers — is an essential part of a healthy ecosystem. Pollinators play a significant role in the production...
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