Power Point Presentation by Jim Embry at the June 20th School Garden Workshop
Participant Comments:
Hi Jim. I just wanted to let you know how much I
enjoyed the school gardens training yesterday. It was great
information, great fellowship and great food! Thank you for all your
hard work. Patti Meads
Patti Meads
County Agent for Horticulture
Woodford County Cooperative Extension
184 Beasley Road
Versailles, KY 40383
Also in 2009 we organized the Kentucky School
Gardens Network and
the Bluegrass
School and
Community Garden Network to support, advocate for and
facilitate school
gardens efforts in Kentucky
Gardening with Class: Creating and
Sustaining your School Garden
Saturday
March 26 9am-4pm
or
Monday June 20 9am-4pm
Cost: $40.00
Crestwood
Christian Church
181 Bellefonte Dr. Lexington, KY
email sustainlex@gmail.com or call (859)270-3699
Grow
Kentucky!
A
Garden At Every School
in Kentucky"
Gardening
with
Class workshop is designed with K-12 teachers in mind and will show how instructional gardens
support:
- Kentucky Core Content Standard
- Environmental Education
- Cultural awareness and social
interaction
- Language arts, science, history,
math, music
- Service Learning
- Culinary Arts
- Community Partnerships
- …and more
During this
workshop we will highlight the unique contributions of a variety of
school
garden programs to provide a landscape of ideas you can adapt to your
school
setting. Each school garden story will provide a glimpse into the ways
garden
programs can be structured and the myriad rich opportunities they offer.
Rationale:
Good
Food For all Kids: A Garden at Every School in Kentucky!
The diet of Kentucky's youth needs
to improve. Hunger, bad nutrition and
obesity among children are leading causes of health risks and often
contribute
to poor classroom performance. By planting a garden at every school in
Kentucky,
we will ensure that every child has the opportunity to benefit from
eating more
fresh healthy foods. A well-planned edible schoolyard can supply a
significant
portion of a school's daily food needs. By cultivating a garden
together,
children learn vital skills in team work, problem solving, creative
planning,
and sustainable living. Garden-based classes are a great way to
complement
classroom education in many subjects including biology, botany,
ecology,
mathematics, nutrition, art, and writing. Most important, gardening is
fun for
kids! School gardens can dramatically enliven the learning process by
giving
students the ability to connect in a very experiential and hands-on way
with
the incredible living world unfolding all around them. For all of these
reasons
and many more, let's support the vision for a garden growing at every
school in
Kentucky!
Best
Practices in School Gardens
School
teachers, staff, students, volunteers and administrators across
Kentucky are
interested in establishing and sustaining instructional gardens. In
April and
June of 2009 two Gardening with Class: School Garden Workshops
were held in
Lexington that attracted 200+ teachers,
parents and staff excited about establishing a school garden on their
campus. Out
of this workshop 40+ gardens were developed. In March 2010 a school
garden workshop was held in conjunction with the Bluegreass
Food Security Summit that attracted 30 particpants.
Power Point Presentation by Jim Embry at the March 26th School Garden Workshop
Also in 2009 we organized the Kentucky School
Gardens Network and
the Bluegrass
School and
Community Garden Network to support, advocate for and
facilitate school
gardens efforts in Kentucky.
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