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Response to Caitlin Flanagan in The Atlantic

The latest issue of The Atlantic includes a piece by Caitlin Flanagan criticizing school gardens. Kurt Michael Friese has written an excellent response. I want to address two points that relate specifically to my professional expertise, as the Director of Urban Sprouts.

January 12, 2010   Posted in: food systems, gbemodel, history, school garden  8 Comments

Keynote on School Gardens

I was extremely honored to be asked to give the keynote speech at last Saturday’s School Garden conference held by the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley. The conference theme was successes and best practices, so I shared the Program Model and the story of how Michelle’s research study on school gardens led to this framework [...]

March 19, 2008   Posted in: curriculum, evaluation, gbemodel, history, school garden  Comments Closed