from the garden

Archive for October, 2009

Join Us and Make a Difference

Great News: the world is catching on to our message that school gardens can nourish us and strengthen our communities! The Obamas put food gardens in the spotlight on the White House lawn, and now more than ever parents and teachers are asking Urban Sprouts for support and advice. The movement is growing because this [...]

October 29, 2009   Posted in: fundraising  Comments Closed

School has been in session for only about two months but already so much has been happening in our gardens. At ISA the high school seminar got the daunting opportunity to install a drip irrigation system for our garden. This project took a lot of team work and problem solving skills in order to piece [...]

October 25, 2009   Posted in: school garden, volunteer  Comments Closed

Composting at Ida B. Wells

Students at Ida B. Wells are beginning to see themselves as part of the nutrient cycle. Rather than throwing out all food wastes, we’re taking discarded scraps from the school’s cooking class and returning them back to the earth in the form of compost. Last month, Mr. Hannon’s class, our volunteers, and Urban Sprouts intern, [...]

October 12, 2009   Posted in: compost  2 Comments

Urban Sprouts Grows Up

We’ve reached a milestone! Urban Sprouts has just finished a three-year funding cycle with the Network for a Healthy California’s Local Food and Nutrition Education channel. Phew! We’ve grown and matured so much during these three years – from a mostly-volunteer staff of one, to a strong team of five serving 7 schools and over [...]

October 9, 2009   Posted in: evaluation, gbemodel, school garden  Comments Closed