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 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 …

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 …

The Value of Patience

artichokes growing in a self-watering container in the Learn & Grow test garden

In our ever-increasingly rapid-paced world, we have become accustomed to real-time results to many of our efforts and inquiries, which amounts to instant gratification. Surrounded by these experiences, it is easy for developing young children who are still processing the world according to intuition rather than logic to misperceive this constant stream of instant gratification as the only kind of …

Growing Your Own Food is Independence

This last week has been a whirlwind of activity for KPS4Parents and its Learn & Grow Educational Series. While we were working with students and developing instructional content for children, the political and economic situation in Venezuela took an absolute turn for the worst. Venezuela is the first internet-connected population of hungry and starving people. Professionals living in high rise …