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May 19, 2021

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 […]

General Info 0 36 sec read
May 3, 2021

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

General Info 0 15 sec read
May 3, 2021

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 […]

General Info 0 45 sec read
November 29, 2020

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. […]

General Info 0 3 min read
August 18, 2020

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 […]

For K-12 Teachers 0 1 min read
August 18, 2020

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 […]

10th Grade 0 40 sec read
May 22, 2020

Food for Thought – Episode 3: Teaching How Systems Work Through Gardening

In our 3rd episode of Food for Thought, our director and creator of the Learn & Grow Educational Series discusses how to use gardening to teach kids about systems, how they work, and how they interact with each other to create larger systems. References: California State Academic Standards – https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/ Definition of “gestalt” – https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gestalt Bronfenbrenner’s Socio-Ecological Model of Human […]

General Info 0 18 min read
May 19, 2020

Let Us Make You a Garden

If you are located in Ventura, Santa Barbara, or West Los Angeles County, California, and would like a custom-built self-watering container garden, but don’t have the time to put it together yourself, we are making ourselves available to collect the recycled pieces, pre-cut the parts, and deliver your container garden to you using proper social distancing measures and safety equipment. […]

General Info 0 3 min read
May 19, 2020

Food for Thought – Episode 2: Teaching Long-Term Planning to Kids with Gardening

Learn & Grow Educational Series’ creator, Anne M. Zachry, M.A. Ed. Psych., discusses the life lessons that are naturally embedded in learning to grow food and how this is deliberately accounted for in Learn & Grow’s curriculum. Find us online: https://learn-and-grow.org Follow Us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/learngrowedseries Follow Us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/LearnAndGrowEdSeries Donate: https://paypal.me/learnandgrow Transcript of Audio from Video: Note:  The […]

10th Grade 0 13 min read

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