from the garden

Archive for June, 2009

US visits Corpse Flower

This week an amazing botanical event went down in the Bay Area! Trudy, the “Titan Arum” or “Corpse Flower” at the UC Botanical Garden bloomed. Why is this amazing?? Trudy is 16 years old, hadn’t bloomed in 4 years, and her blossom was 6 feet tall! It only stayed open for about one day, and [...]

June 26, 2009   Posted in: corpseflower, pollinators  Comments Closed

GoogleServe 2009

We would like to say a huge thank you to the folks from Google who came out to the International Studies Academy garden on June 9th. The team built new beds, mulched, built a fabulous pathway and were overall garden superstars. Thank you so much for your support and dedication!!! If you’re interested in organizing [...]

June 22, 2009   Posted in: volunteer  Comments Closed

2009 Childhood Obesity Conference

Tomorrow at the 2009 Childhood Obesity Conference in LA, I’ll be presenting on Urban Sprouts’ program model for garden-based education and our recent evaluation results! This work is a partnership with Portland, Oregon’s Ecotrust, and also shows off their accomplishments in Farm to School and creating locally grown and produced school lunches. If you’d like [...]

June 9, 2009   Posted in: evaluation, gbemodel  2 Comments

Farmer-in-Residence Update

Our 4 Farmer-in-Residence families are off to a tremendous start. We have harvested mustards and lettuce, the squash are blossoming and we’re about ready to begin trellising our cucumbers. Work will begin in the next few weeks on new beds at ISA and June Jordan as we prepare to expand our program to incorporate more [...]

June 3, 2009   Posted in: family  2 Comments

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June 3, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed