Everybody is getting into local vegetable gardening. This article shows how first lady Michelle Obama tends her home garden (aka, the White House garden!) with students from local schools. Note the raised beds and the regional crops (Lincoln Oats and Paw Paws) she is growing.
I am not familiar with FoodCorps (read the article), but sounds like something to look into for our schools.
Leave It Better is an organization that helps schools grow food and helps kids to teach others about gardening through video storytelling. They are partnered with many NYC groups and programs, such as Grow to Learn, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Green Up, NYC Compost Project, and Bronxworks. In addition, Leave it Better provides HD cameras for students to document their learning and work.
Check out our students from from P94M, featured in our gardeners on the Leave It Better website.
Plant-Learn-Grow went to the Union Square Greenmarket! Four classes from 17x brought their students to take an educational field trip to learn about where our food comes from and why it is important to buy local food. Besides learning where our food come from, the students got to try butternut squash with rosemary and learned that there are such things as PURPLE CARROTS!
At the end of the trip, each class was given some “Greenmarket Bucks” to spend on yummy food to bring back up to the Bronx.
Hi Everyone. Here’s a cool resource and book list about food and nutrition for elementary aged children. You can also find it in the Resources tab above along with lots of other great tools! Next week, not one, not two, not three, but FIVE schools are going on tours to their local greenmarkets. We can’t wait to see their pics and hear all about it. Have a great weekend!
We are having our First Annual Harvest Photo Contest! The Autumn Harvest is a beautiful time to go outside, feel the crisp air, and look at the vibrant colors all around. Photo entries should feature your PLG students and represent the autumn harvest. These pictures can be taken at your own school garden, a local community garden, or a class field trip to a Greenmarket or grocery store. The winning pictures will be made into a poster sized print for your classroom and featured on the Plant-Learn-Grow Website. Photos must be submitted by Tuesday December 3rd.
Rules:
*Extra note: please be sure to use fine or high resolution when taking the photos. This is to ensure the highest quality when the photos get blown-up to poster size.
How are your class gardens coming along? What are your plans for planting in the winter months? Maybe the farmers can help us out! Six of our PLG schools will be going on trips to their local greenmarkets over the next few weeks. We can’t wait to hear what they learn from talking to the farmers and sellers at the market. Which fruits and vegetables are available at this time of year? Take photos and share what you learn with the community!
We hope everyone has been enjoying their spring and summer harvests and is ready to get into another exciting year of planting, learning and growing together! We have a lot of exciting things planned this year and can’t wait to get started. Here are some upcoming events that you don’t want to miss:
The Plant Learn Grow workshop for teachers is on September 26. Make sure that your teacher is signed up!
October 16 is World Food Day. Check out the website to see what you can do to get involved.
And, don’t forget to register your school garden with Grow to Learn NYC .
Check back soon for updates!
The students from 993 Q at Frank Sinatra HS made pesto pasta and salad from ingredients they grew in their classroom! Here they are selecting, clipping and blending the basil leaves for the pesto sauce. They also had a salad made from hydroponically grown lettuce from their classroom window farm. Yum!
Check out this awesome 4 column window farm designed and built by Chris’ class at 771 K @ PS 98 in Brooklyn. We can’t wait to visit and hope to get a taste of these yummy looking greens.
Hello PLG Community,
Grow to Learn, which is the organization giving away up to $2,000 in grants for NYC Schools, presented a overview on how to write a proper Grow to Learn Grant Application. I attended the workshop in Manhattan and am providing a PDF of the slides below:
The workshop was informative and stressed that, even if you do not get a grant, if your school is registered with Grow to Learn, you will be eligible for free soil, lumber, cheap plants, and various other supplies.
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