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Summer Sprouts

Sadly, Summer Sprouts is now officially over. We ended the three week gardening and youth leadership program with a garden celebration for the family and friends of our program participants. The students showcased what they learned over the last weeks through skits, posters, snacks and games concerning topics like eating healthy, food access and soil [...]

July 11, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized, event, family, nutrition, organic, parent, urban garden, youth involvement  Comments Closed

Cooking Collards on Video

I am very excited to bring to you a glimpse of a day in our gardens. Thanks to our new Flip cameras, you can see Urban Sprouts in action preparing freshly harvested collards into delicious, simple, gourmet snacks! Students at both Martin Luther King middle school and International Studies Academy have gotten excited about sharing [...]

January 29, 2010   Posted in: local food, nutrition, organic, school garden, video  Comments Closed

Food class visits Small Farm

Yesterday the June Jordan Food class took a trip to Hidden Villa ranch, an educational organic farm and ranch. As we drove by the farm fields near the ranch’s entrance, a student yelled out, “Look! It’s just like the small farms we learned about!” As in, small farms versus industrial farms. I was happy. Another [...]

April 25, 2008   Posted in: farm, food systems, local food, organic  Comments Closed

Farm Field Trip in Salinas

Last Friday the June Jordan Food class took a field trip! We had a fabulous time visiting ALBA, the Agriculture and Land-based Training Association in Salinas, CA. ALBA offers a training program in organic farming that helps limited-resource farmers and farmworkers to manage their own sustainable farm buisnesses. Very inspiring. ALBA Organics is the marketing [...]

March 23, 2007   Posted in: farm, organic  One Comment

Big vs. Small Farms: who wins?

For the last unit of the Food! class at June Jordan we compared the economics behind large industrial farms and small organic farms in the US. Our project may not be completely scientific, but it was extremely interesting. We compared USDA data for the average “large” US farm – definied as a farm with over [...]

December 12, 2006   Posted in: farm, organic  2 Comments