In this episode of Food for Thought, Anne M. Zachry, M.A. Ed. Psych., creator of the Learn & Grow Educational Series interviews Dr. Stephanie Ryan about her book, her online instructional content and teaching to the science standards at home with everyday items. They discuss their different approaches to science through Project-Based Learning (PBL), modeling, scaffolding, and other evidence-based practices, …
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Food for Thought – Episode 12: Decorating Self-Watering Containers with Acrylic Pour Art
In this 12th episode of Food for Thought, Anne M. Zachry, the creator of the Learn & Grow Educational Series, demonstrates how to decorate self-watering containers using acrylic pour art, plus an additional bonus craft project using contact paper. For self-watering container gardeners who are making their container from used 5-gallon buckets recycled from restaurants, bakeries, delis, cafeterias, etc., your …
Food for Thought – Episode 11: Maintaining Food Security During Supply Chain Shortages
In this 11th episode of Food for Thought, Anne M. Zachry, the creator of the Learn & Grow Educational Series, discusses the recent supply chain shortages and their impact on food security in America at the time this video was made. She demonstrates how self-watering containers work using two different methods as a food security strategy that can …
Food for Thought – Episode 10: How Sub-Irrigation Works No Matter Which Materials You Use
One of the biggest challenges faced by our learners around the world is access to materials to make their own self-watering gardening containers. In this video, Anne explains how sub-irrigation (the science behind self-watering containers) and demonstrates three different types of self-watering containers, showing that so long as you apply the science, the materials you use doesn’t matter. Our hope …
Food for Thought – Episode 9: Baking Cookies with Edible Flowers
In this episode of Food for Thought, Anne demonstrates baking cookies using a butane stove and a catering chafer for an improvised stove and decorating the cookies with edible flowers grown in self-watering containers and traditional planters in the Learn & Grow Virtual Sustainability Learning Center and test garden. Links: Recipe & Results: https://www.instagram.com/p/CO6ZSClHNAs Smart & Final – https://smartandfinal.com Camarillo …
Food for Thought – Episode 8: Off-the-Grid Really Clean Laundry
In this episode of Food for Thought, Anne demonstrates our solar-, manual-, and wind-powered laundry solution that produces environmentally safe gray water that we can then use to water our garden, combining sustainable living practices with food security. #sustainability #permaculture #foodsecurity #fooddesertsolution #organic #gardening #organicgardening #eggs #layinghens #selfwateringcontainer #selfwateringplanter #TeachEverywhereGrowAnywhere #FoodSecurityIsFreedom #LearnGrowEdSeries #VirtualSustainabilityLearningCenter
Food for Thought – Episode 7: Contending with Crises
This episode of Food for Thought was recorded a few days after the attempted insurrection at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, and comes on the tail of four of the hardest years Americans have ever faced, which has an impact on the entire world. In this episode, Learn & Grow Educational Series creator, Anne M. Zachry, talks …
Food for Thought – Episode 6: Intro to the Virtual Sustainability Learning Center
Food For Thought Episode 6: The Learn & Grow Virtual Sustainability Learning Center In this episode of Food for Thought, Anne explains the purpose and design elements of the Virtual Sustainability Learning Center and how it will be used to provide ongoing online instruction until we get our tiny house (https://gf.me/u/yzvw9p) and add to our sustainable living instruction using it. …
Food for Thought – Episode 5: Comparison of Total D.I.Y. vs. GroBucket
In this episode of Food for Thought, Anne Zachry, creator of the Learn & Grow Educational Series and her colleague and Learn & Grow volunteer, Isabel Arreola, compare a total DIY version of a self-watering container to a self-watering container made with a GroBucket by GroTech (https://instagram.com/grotechgarden). Those of you who have been following us for a while should remember …
Food for Thought – Episode 4: Teaching Diversity Appreciation Via Permaculture
In our fourth episode of Food for Thought, Anne discusses how project-based instruction using companion planting and other polyculture techniques illustrate how diversity is a natural phenomenon that can be used to maximize the benefits for all involved. It can serve as a neutral topic of instruction illustrating that understanding how things naturally work best together produces superior results than …