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Archive for October, 2008

A Chance for You to make a difference!

If you feel like I do, today’s political attack ads and gloomy financial news on TV have you hungering for meaning. For meaningful conversations about the needs in our families and our communities, and for a meaningful way to make a difference. A new era is here: we can no longer depend on cheap food [...]

October 27, 2008   Posted in: fundraising, local food, school garden  Comments Closed

SF School Gardens Conference ’08!

Urban Sprouts was proud to be part of the San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance‘s 3rd Conference on October 10th-11th. The weekend was like a party for the school garden movement — new things to learn (photos at right and below), like cob building, mosaics, carpentry, and seed saving, and time to spend with old and [...]

October 20, 2008   Posted in: event, gbemodel, local food, school garden  One Comment

Community Day in the Victory Gardens

The San Francisco Civic Center Victory Garden has been stage to a number of activities since it was installed in July 2008. Most recently was the Community Day featuring hands-on educational garden activities, a puppet show on family and healthy eating; short workshops on urban farming and a brass band performance. Urban Sprouts was there [...]

October 19, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Youth Teaching Peers to Compost

Urban Sprouts partnered with our friends at Garden for the Environment to lead workshops at Breaking Ground: the Urban Gardening Youth Conference on Saturday, Sept 27th. The event was held in San Francisco’s Mission district and attended by youth from high schools all over the Bay Area! Workshop topics included green jobs, composting, gardening, green [...]

October 10, 2008   Posted in: event, worm compost, zero waste  One Comment

The President needs a Victory Garden

Watch this video! Sheep on the White House lawn . . . sigh. Think Obama or McCain would turn the White House lawn into a food garden, like we have (temporarily) here in San Francisco? If you wanna see it, you can sign this petition. National Farm to School tells us that Obama has requested [...]

October 7, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Garden Work(out)

An outdoor gymnasium made of recycled materials?! Urban Sprouts thinks this should be on the list of garden projects! Check out Eco Gym at Good Magazine.

October 6, 2008   Posted in: physical activity, school garden  Comments Closed

Join Us and Invest in Youth as Green Farmers!

Dear Friends, If you feel like I do, today’s political attack ads and gloomy financial news on TV have you hungering for meaning. For meaningful conversations about the needs in our families and our communities, and for a meaningful way to make a difference. A new era is here: we can no longer depend on [...]

October 1, 2008   Posted in: fundraising, local food, school garden  Comments Closed