from the garden

Archive for June, 2008

Our Results: 2007-2008

Outcomes and Activities:During the 2007-2008 school year, Urban Sprouts planned to reach 500 students in the 6th through 12th grades at five San Francisco public schools serving the city’s most under-served neighborhoods. Urban Sprouts greatly surpassed this goal, reaching a total of 728 students this year. Urban Sprouts partnered with five schools: Aptos Middle School, [...]

June 30, 2008   Posted in: evaluation, gbemodel, school garden  Comments Closed

Urban Sprouts Loves Philly

I recently got back from a weekend trip to Philadelphia. Christine Manoux of the UC Botanical Garden asked me to join her for a conference at the Franklin Institute. The Franklin’s BRIDGES conference asks about 50 cultural institutions from around the country — like science museums, children’s museums, zoos — to bring a community partner [...]

June 28, 2008   Posted in: gbemodel  Comments Closed

Salad Day and School’s Out!

The last couple of weeks of school were a flurry of activity as we rushed to prepare the gardens for summer vacation, held end-of-the-year parties and BBQs, and said goodbye to our friends and teachers. Of course, we couldn’t end the year without one last garden bash. At MLK MS and Excelsior MS we held [...]

June 25, 2008   Posted in: event, school lunch  4 Comments

Job Opportunities at Urban Sprouts

GARDEN EDUCATOR (part-time) What is Urban Sprouts?Urban Sprouts is a school garden organization that serves low-income youth from San Francisco’s under-served neighborhoods. We teach youth to grow, harvest, prepare and eat vegetables from the school garden in order to help youth become more engaged in school, eat better, exercise more, and connect with the environment [...]

June 15, 2008   Posted in: school garden  Comments Closed

Coffee & Kale a Success!

A HUGE Thank You to everyone who attended our Coffee & Kale Garden Brunch at Ida B. Wells High School on Sunday. This was the first time ever we have hosted an event like this. And it was so much fun! First, in preparation, students harvested five boxes of produce from all our school gardens, [...]

June 5, 2008   Posted in: event, fundraising, school garden  Comments Closed

Our Staff

Abby Jaramillo, Executive Director. abby AT urbansprouts.orgI’ve worked as a gardener and educator in the Bay Area for the past eight years. I started Urban Sprouts at Luther Burbank Middle School in 2004 with my colleague and friend Michelle Ratcliffe and a group of dedicated teachers. I love Urban Sprouts because I can share with [...]

June 1, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed