from the garden

Archive for February, 2008

Delicious and Meaningful

I am not easily ruffled by celebrity status. There are strata of celebrity and I am often challenged to distinguish who is who and from what they derive their importance. That said, I actually gawked the other day. I was officially star struck. Not so much by the mere fact of popular status but rather [...]

February 28, 2008   Posted in: celebrities, food systems, local food  One Comment

A Program Model for Garden-based Ed

A few weeks back I gave a presentation at the Network for a Healthy California Annual Conference in Sacramento. It was a chance to share with other nutrition educators a special strength of Urban Sprouts — our “Model,” something that has theory behind it, has been tested by research, and guides everything that we do. [...]

February 19, 2008   Posted in: curriculum, evaluation, gbemodel, school garden  One Comment