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Archive for September, 2007

Field Trip to Portland, OR

A few weeks back I visited Michelle Ratcliffe, Urban Sprouts’ co-founder, at her home in Oregon. Michelle is an inspiring crusader in the world of school gardens, farm to school, and family farm life! She showed me around her world in and outside of Portland. First stop, straight from the airport, she whisked me away [...]

September 28, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Urban Sprouts Has FUN!

Britt Bravo of Have Fun * Do Good is hosting a Blog Carnival called How Does Your Nonprofit Have Fun and Do Good? Here are my responses to her theme! Two ways that Urban Sprouts (a school garden nonprofit) has fun: by collaborating with these projects. 1. Meet the Greens. This is a website (with [...]

September 27, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Better Nutrition, Better Thinking!

The SF Examiner reports- San Francisco’s Mayor Newsom, is supporting better nutrition options at schools with a $500,000 grant to the SFUSD Student Nutrition Services (SNS). What will be done with the money? SNS is planning to install salad bars at 25 SF schools this year, including three schools with Urban Sprouts gardens: June Jordan [...]

September 5, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed