In this episode of Food for Thought, Carrie Runnals of GroTech Gardens, makers of the GroBucket self-watering container visits the Learn & Grow Virtual Sustainability Learning Center and test garden, all the way from Georgia. Carrie and her husband, Joe, hit the road in their beautifully upgraded RV to travel and enjoy our beautiful country and connect with all of us out here using GroBucket kits to solve all kinds of real-world plant-growing problems. Carrie has always been a supporter of the Learn & Grow Educational Series and the community service work we do. In this video, Carrie and Anne discuss how Learn & Grow is using GroBucket kits to build community self-watering container gardens in partnership with the Kiwanis Club of Camarillo, as well as the thought and planning that goes into this ongoing community service project and the benefits it’s intended to deliver.

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Links:

• GroBucket links:
  • GroBucket 3-pack: https://amzn.to/31ezsSL
  • GroBucket 10-pack: https://amzn.to/3duslZc
  • GroBucket Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/GroBucket, @GroBucket
  • GroTech Gardens Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grotechgarden, @grotechgarden
• Buy Organic Seeds: http://www.seedsnow.com/?rfsn=3720.1f…
• Anne’s nerd brain shirt (apparently it’s discontinued, but you can see the image up close here): https://ar.pinterest.com/pin/54430230…
• Ron Finley’s TED Talk: https://youtu.be/EzZzZ_qpZ4w
• Isabel’s how-to Spanish video, “Cómo hacer que los contenedores auto-riego para jardinería”: https://youtu.be/3weBc7ZZpsA
• Camarillo Health Care District: https://www.camhealth.com/
• University Prep Charter School: https://universitycharterschools.csuc…
• Kiwanis Club of Camarillo: https://kiwanisclubofcamarillo.com/
• Food Share: https://foodshare.com/
• Learn & Grow Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/LearnAndGrowEdSe…, @LearnAndGrowEdSeries
• Learn & Grow Instagram: https://instagram.com/learngrowedseries, @learngrowedseries
• Learn & Grow Meetup Group: https://www.meetup.com/los-angeles-ur…
• Learn & Grow AirBnB Experiences links:
  • Garden Tours: https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/94…
  • Self-Watering Container Classes: https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/52…
• Learn & Grow Online store: https://kps4parents.org/shop

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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, including the science and math used in the Learn & Grow Virtual Sustainability Learning Center and test garden, and they many lessons they inspire in Learn & Grow’s instruction.

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LINKS:

• Let’s Learn About Chemistry, by Stephanie Ryan, PhD: https://amzn.to/3ua5mg6
• Dr. Stephanie Ryan’s Website: http://www.letslearnaboutscience.com/
• Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS): https://www.nextgenscience.org/
• NGSS Science & Engineering Practices (SEPs): https://www.nextgenscience.org/sites/…
• “The Dad” Lab on Instagram: @thedadlab (https://www.instagram.com/thedadlab/)
• Sasha Velour Reveal GIF credit: https://tenor.com/search/sasha-velour…
• Stoichiometry = the measure of elements https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelv…
• Learn & Grow K-12 Lesson Plans: https://learn-and-grow.org/k-12-teach…
• Learn & Grow Boy Scout Badge Content: https://learn-and-grow.org/service-co…
• Lev Vegotsky: https://www.simplypsychology.org/vygo…
• Jean Piaget: https://www.verywellmind.com/jean-pia…
• Teachers Pay Teachers: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/
• Uri Bronfenbrenner: https://bctr.cornell.edu/about-us/uri…
• Romanesco Broccoli photo credit: https://flickr.com/photos/timquijano/
• Cornstarch Goo (Oobleck) Experiment: https://sciencebob.com/oobleck-the-co…
• SET UP YOUR OWN INSULATED TENT-YURT: Tent-Yurt: https://shorturl.at/lGM12
• Sunsail: https://shorturl.at/vzO29
• Mylar Bubblewrap Insulation (2 rolls): https://shorturl.at/huxEO
• Velcro (3-4 boxes): https://shorturl.at/ntHRX
• Gorilla Glue (needed to help the Velcro adhere to the waterproofed fabric of the tent-yurt): https://shorturl.at/nzLYZ

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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 buckets may be even less pretty than plain ones brand new from the store. If you want to make your buckets look nice in your gardening spaces, this video shows you a couple of creative ways to dress them up.

Learn & Grow Links:

• Website: https://learn-and-grow.org
• Online store: https://learn-and-grow.org/shop
• IG: https://instagram.com/learngrowedseries
• FB: https://facebook.com/LearnAndGrowEdSe…
• YouTube Playlists:
  • Food for Thought – https://shorturl.at/iosRS
  • Learn & Grow with Emmalyn – https://shorturl.at/wALSV
  • Learn & Grow Educational Series – https://shorturl.at/jpuGZ

Shop for Acrylic Paints for Pouring: https://tinyurl.com/mr2ewsna

Contact Paper: https://amzn.to/3i0Mn2d

Shop for Seeds: http://www.seedsnow.com/?rfsn=3720.1f…

GroBucket Kits:

• 3-packs – https://amzn.to/31ezsSL
• 10-packs – https://amzn.to/3duslZc

Shop for Other Gardening Supplies: https://learn-and-grow.org/shop

Music Credit: Little Adventures by Sokolovsky Music | http://sokolovskymusic.com

Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com

Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/…

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 is that our learners around the world can find materials in their own areas that will allow them to make their own kinds of self-watering containers, no matter where they live.

If you end up coming up with your own self-watering container design, we’d love to see it! Take photos or make videos and tag us in them so we can share them with everyone!

• Hashpad self-watering container platforms
  • On Instagram: @hashpad (https://instagram.com/hashpad)
  • www.growingproducts.net
  • https://youtu.be/q4tZm1iNBTg
• Isabel’s videos:
  • Spanish Language DIY How-To video: https://youtu.be/3weBc7ZZpsA
  • GroBucket Compared to DIY Version video: https://youtu.be/kJnvsOI2JpM
• GroBucket Links:
  • GroBucket 3-pack: https://amzn.to/31ezsSL
  • GroBucket 10-pack: https://amzn.to/3duslZc
  • GroBags (10): https://amzn.to/3xq5t8f
• Depend on Planet Earth (D.O.P.E.)
  • Instagram: @dependonplanetearth (https://instagram.com/dependonplanetearth)
  • www.dependonplanetearth.com

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 Grocery Outlet – https://instagram.com/camarillo_groceryoutlet
• Coleman Butane Stove: https://amzn.to/3hvSpsq

Image Credit: YouTube PNG by PNG Tree – https://pngtree.com/so/youtube

Music Credit: Little Adventures by Sokolovsky Music | http://sokolovskymusic.com. Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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

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 about the potential economic future for commercialized agriculture in the U.S., food security, and home gardening. This video was originally posted January 11, 2021 on IGTV at https://www.instagram.com/tv/CJ7V1gHA…

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The Ring of Fire post, “Trump Spent Billions To Bribe American Farmers To Vote For Him” – https://youtu.be/qD69m4_nXzg Farron Balanced: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5dU… @farronbalanced

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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.

For now, we’re providing project-based instruction supported by modeling in an evidence-based approach to providing virtual instruction to hands-on problem-solving and the application of academic skills to addressing real-world problems on a scale that can be replicated by many families, either as part of a home-based instruction strategy during shutdown or an ongoing homeschooling application, as well as other groups such as Scout troops, schools, and community-based organizations.

Links:
* More information about Feed America and pandemic-related childhood food insecurity – https://feedamerica.org
* More info on beneficial soil bacteria, Mycobacterium vaccae, which can reduce anxiety: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376635713000296
https://rdw.rowan.edu/etd/2707/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323774195_Women_with_Anxiety_and_Depression_Out_of_the_Darkness_and_into_the_Light

Key basic materials used in the design and implementation of the Virtual Sustainability Learning Center:
* Tent-yurt – https://amzn.to/3lVYZI3
* Wood burning stove – https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/camp-chef-alpine-heavy-duty-cylinder-stove
* Shower/bathroom tent – https://amzn.to/2IQi0NY
* Sink/table – https://amzn.to/3fjwSjw
* Composting toilet system:
(Instructions: One bucket serves as a storage container for clean, unused coconut coir. The scoop goes with it, so you can scoop fresh coconut coir into the toilet. The second bucket is the actual toilet. Snap the toilet seat to the top of it and put a layer of coconut coir down on the bottom of the bucket. Thereafter, when using the toilet, cover your waste with more fresh coconut coir. Once it fills up to the point where it almost can’t be comfortably used, dump the contents into a composter, rinse it out, dump the rinse water also into the composter, return to the bathroom space, and reload it with a fresh new bottom layer of coconut coir. After 6 months, the composted bathroom waste can be used to fertilize trees; after 1 year, it can be used to fertilize food crops.)
* Two 5-gallon buckets, one with a lid – https://www.lowes.com/pd/United-Solutions-5-Gallon-General-Bucket/1000462835 and https://www.lowes.com/pd/Encore-Plastics-12-in-Blue-Plastic-Bucket-Lid/3029999
* Toilet seat – https://amzn.to/36RnBvi
* Loose coconut coir – https://amzn.to/3lRozOk
* Scoop – https://amzn.to/3lRZ3IJ
* Gray water recapturing buckets:
* 16-gallon for shower – https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/tuff-stuff-flex-tubs-16-gal-asst-f16-pmx
* 7-gallon for sink – https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/tuff-stuff-flex-tubs-7-gal-asst-f7-pmx
* Mylar emergency blankets for making a heat-reflector inside the tent-yurt – https://amzn.to/335u2da
* Omnia Stovetop Oven – https://amzn.to/393tsQQ

More information about the Great American Dust Bowl of the 1930s – https://fmr.org/legislative-updates/lessons-dust-bowl-cleaner-mississippi-rooted-new-farming-paradigm

More information about Lev Vygotsky – https://www.simplypsychology.org/vygotsky.html

We needed to replace our current battery-operated shower. The pump is already dying, so we can’t recommend it. We recently ordered https://a.co/4RR3SdX, but it hasn’t been delivered, yet, so we’ll have to keep you posted on how well it works out.

***Note: All product links to Amazon are via affiliate links. A portion of all proceeds from Amazon orders helps us fund our educational programs and services.

Music credit:
Simple Ballad by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com
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