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Archive for March, 2008

Urban Farming Gains Attention

San Francisco Chronicle’s March 22nd paper featured a series of articles on urban farming. The many innovative approaches to growing food in an urban setting, such as school gardens, appear to be attracting the attention of city planners. The series ends with an invitation to us readers to share our own thoughts on urban farming [...]

March 25, 2008   Posted in: edible, farm, policy, urban garden  Comments Closed

Keynote on School Gardens

I was extremely honored to be asked to give the keynote speech at last Saturday’s School Garden conference held by the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley. The conference theme was successes and best practices, so I shared the Program Model and the story of how Michelle’s research study on school gardens led to this framework [...]

March 19, 2008   Posted in: curriculum, evaluation, gbemodel, history, school garden  Comments Closed

Build an Urban Bee Garden

A brief but fascinating conversation with Dr. Rollin Coville, a UC Berkeley trained entomologist, led Urban Sprouts to the website for Urban Bee Gardens. For those of you interested in local and native pollinators, check it out! You can learn amazing information about bees such as: There are about 25,000 species of bees known worldwide. [...]

March 17, 2008   Posted in: bees, pollinators, school garden, urban garden  Comments Closed

Love your Pollinators!

You may be following the worrying news that honey bees are mysteriously disappearing in the US and worldwide, possibly due to a mix of diseases and insecticides. Here in California this seriously threatens our fruit and nut tree crops that depend on bees as pollinators. In fact, Einstein was quoted as saying if the bees [...]

March 12, 2008   Posted in: bees, curriculum, flower, pollinators, school garden  One Comment