from the garden

Archive for February, 2006

School Salad Harvest, part 1

Tuesday was our practice Salad Day at Burbank M.S. For this round we did minimal school publicity, just a handful of posters made by Mr. Perez’s students and hung up around school by Ms. Keenan’s students. Perez’s and DeSnoo’s 2nd period groups, and Keenan’s 4th period class harvested all the lettuce heads and as much [...]

February 27, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

NYT Op-Ed: Food at School

This Op-Ed piece by Alice Waters appeared in the New York Times on Friday. Her program, the Edible Schoolyard, is different from Urban Sprouts in many ways, but the core is the same: through school garden experiences, young people are inspired to make real changes in their eating behaviors. IT’S shocking that because of the [...]

February 27, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Wriggling Worms

Our worm bottle project at Ida B. Wells is going really well. Last week the students made worm bottles—they turned plastic water bottles into cozy worm houses. First they had to cut off the tops and poke holes in the bottles to provide air for the worms. Then they filled the bottle with layers of [...]

February 23, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Mapping our Waste Stream

Yesterday we had a great day at June Jordan School for Equity in our garden-based environmental justice elective, called the Green Revolution, and taught by Ms. Huang. We completed the first step of our new campaign to reduce school waste through recycling & composting. The students are conducting youth-led action research, in order to assess [...]

February 7, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  5 Comments