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Archive for July, 2009

2009 Summer Program Cookbook

The 2009 Cookbook is now available, check out all the fabulous recipes from the summer program. Each day the students would prepare a tasty and nutritious lunch for their peers, staff and volunteers. This proved to be one of the favorite parts of the program with everyone enjoying a delicious feast after a day in [...]

July 13, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Message from the Youth

This year in the Summer Program we’ve taken our curriculum to the next level — more interactivity and almost no sitting still! We’ve turned group discussions into opportunities for creativity, drama, music, and lots of role-playing to practice sharing what we learn here with our friends and family at home. Today, youth taught each other [...]

July 6, 2009   Posted in: compost, curriculum, zero waste  Comments Closed

Summer Youth Lead the Way

Urban Sprouts’ Summer Program at the Garden for the Environment is in full swing! We have more youth at work than ever before – 8 high school youth are leading the program for 18 middle school youth. We adults can now sit back and watch them go . . . The two youth Garden Managers [...]

July 2, 2009   Posted in: local food, urban garden, youth involvement  Comments Closed

MLK’s New Greenhouse

The Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Middle School garden is now home to a new greenhouse. We are so excited to be able to produce our own starts and incorporate the greenhouse into our garden curriculum.In other exciting MLK news the San Francisco Conservation Corps will begin work today on our garden expansion project!! The [...]

July 1, 2009   Posted in: volunteer  One Comment