Projects

Lessons – Projects – Publications

In-depth, extended curricula.

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Seed to Salad Seed to Salad– Youth grow salad gardens, with emphasis on decision-making and a multidisciplinary approach, including nutrition, physical activity, math, and language arts.Seed to Salad – Spanish Version
picking language Children’s Garden Consultants – Youth become experts in children’s garden design by critically comparing a variety of gardens, and exploring ways to improve them.
Plants and Textiles Plants and Textiles – Focuses on past and present technologies that convert plants into products. Activities include making paper, ropes, indigo dye, mat weaving, and knotted nets.
discovering food system photo Discovering Our Food System – An experiential learning program about how food gets from farm to table, and how we – as eaters – are part of the process.
Living Sculpture – Art made with plants. Introduces simple and more involved projects, including topiary, woven branch art, sod sculpture, crop art and more.
Young artist Dig Art! Cultivating Creativity in the Garden – Integrates gardening with the arts. Activities teach ecological literacy through visual art, music, performance, and more.
One Seed at a Time: Fighting Climate Change in the Garden – Focus on monitoring, alleviating, and mitigating climate change’s impacts in the garden. Activities serve as a springboard for youth community action projects that help to fight climate change.
Three Sisters The Three Sisters: Exploring an Iroquois Garden – Activities link human culture and horticulture through foods, customs, and stories of the Iroquois’ corn-bean-squash plantings.
vvi Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners (VVfG) and Vegetable varieties investigation (Vvi) – A citizen science approach to preserving biodiversity and connecting with community. VVfG is a tool for gardeners while Vvi engages middle and high school aged youth with gardeners.
Youth grow Youth Grow – A leadership program that trains youth to become actively involved in learning about and transforming their local food systems.
military families Gardening with Military Family Members – Tools especially for military helping professionals and military family members to start and sustain gardening efforts.

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