from the garden

Archive for July, 2007

Garden Planning at Ida B. Wells’ Summer School

This past month, I worked with 30 summer school students at Ida B. Wells Continuation HS on a project to redesign and improve our garden. First we completed a mapping exercise, observing and plotting existing vegetation and garden features. Next, each student created a design of their “dream garden”; we encouraged them to be creative [...]

July 28, 2007   Posted in: design, school garden  2 Comments

Summer Program Last Day Party!

The last day of the Summer Program we hosted our most successful Garden Party yet! Youth participants in the program invited their families, friends and teachers to visit the Garden for the Environment and see all the amazing work the youth have done!! More than 75% of youth brought family to the garden – this [...]

July 20, 2007   Posted in: compost, local food, nutrition, parent, urban garden, worm compost, zero waste  2 Comments

Summer Program . . . at Work!

Youth in the Urban Sprouts & GFE Summer Program not only enjoyed the garden, learned, cooked, played and had fun, but they also worked hard!! Physical work can be so rewarding and makes your body feel strong and healthy. Here are some great photos of summer program youth hard at work in the garden! Weeding [...]

July 11, 2007   Posted in: school garden, urban garden  Comments Closed

Understand High Fructose Corn Syrup?

How can foods be labeled “All Natural” when a main ingredient is high fructose corn syrup? Read Britt Bravo’s great recent post about this here: “When is Natural Food Natural?”One of her readers offered these excellent links with more resources on understanding corn syrup: Shaping Youth’s counter-marketing campaign on Capri Sun (“liquid candy”)UCSF scientific article [...]

July 10, 2007   Posted in: nutrition  One Comment

Youth Chefs are Cookin

Today at the GFE Summer Program, we made a special meal. Rania from NextCourse visited the garden as a guest chef, and taught Ahmed, Alex, Kochise, Oscar and me to prepare this menu: Garden salad with freshly made vinaigretteCooked greens with caramelized onions, garlic and vinegarBreaded chicken tenders with housemade ranch dip We harvested salad [...]

July 3, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments