Look at an oak tree and ask yourself, “where did the stuff of that tree come from?” Imagine an acorn in your hand and think about it growing by sending roots into the earth and shooting stems, branches and leaves toward the sky. Imagine this little tree growing bigger and taller until it is 72 feet tall, about the height…
A Japanese website is now sharing information about our year-round gardening program at the Waldorf School of Cape Cod. They were kind to ask permission to write about our program in Japanese here: tabi-labo 授業に「ガーデニング」を取り入れた米小学校。有機野菜を生徒全員で！ In addition, other websites have taken our information and shared it widely, so that now the photo of children working in our hoop house has become…
This post about year round gardening programs for schools reached more than 280,000 shares and one million likes on Facebook. If you were part of making this go viral, thank you for sharing! https://childrengrowing.com/2015/05/11/share-if-you-think-every-school-should-have-a-year-round-gardening-program/ My hope in sharing our experience is to offer encouragement to those individuals of initiative who may find inspiration in our year round methods for cold/cool…
Source: Now in Russian!
Выращивание собственной еды, как обязательный предмет во всех школах http://rodovid.me/ecological_parent/vyraschivanie-sobstvennoy-edy-kak-obyazatelnyy-predmet-vo-vseh-shkolah.html Парник размером 7 х 14 метров является центром всей деятельности. Там, детивыращивают морковь, шпинат, капусту и другие овощи, в том числе и зелень. В процессе, они изучают все преимущества выращивания собственных овощей и этапы, которые необходимо пройти, чтобы из семян получить готовую еду. Смотрите сами и может быть, если вы вдохновились,…
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Discover the website Waldorfish where my guest post about covering the hoop house and the magic of nasturtiums gives a peek into why I love teaching gardening. http://waldorfish.com/blog/
Our friends at http://ecoinventos.com recently translated this postsinto Spanish and have shared it in Spanish on their Facebook page. Share if You Think Every School Should Have a Year-Round Gardening Program! Cultivar tu propios alimentos, asignatura obligatoria en todos los colegios Un colegio donde sus alumnos aprenden a cultivar sus propios alimentos, incluso reciclan su propia comida para hacer compost, en invierno…
Nine Similarities Between Family Gardening and the National Pastime. Our local baseball team uses our school lot for game parking. So, on early evenings before a home game, fans toting lawn chairs stride determinedly down our long driveway toward our community field of dreams. At the same time, parents and kids arriving at school to garden together step out of their…
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