Posted on May 22, 2020 by Anne Zachry
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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:…
Category: General Info Tags: academic, academic standards, bronfenbrenner, common core, container, food, food desert, food security, food-safe, garden, gardener, gardening, gestalt, home school, home-school, homeschool, hunger relief, learn & grow, learn & grow educational series, learning, lesson plan, life lesson, organic, organic gardening, parent, school, self watering, self-watering, self-watering containers, selfwatering, state standards, student, teacher, teaching
Posted on May 19, 2020 by Anne Zachry
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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…
Category: General Info Tags: beneficial nematodes, earthworms, fruit, garden, gardening, organic, portable, recycle, repurpose, rooftop, save water, self-watering, self-watering containers, sustainability, sustainable, tiny house, urban, vegetable, water conservation
Posted on April 24, 2020 by Anne Zachry
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After ground squirrels dug up one end of the Learn & Grow test garden, Learn & Grow Educational Series creator, Anne Zachry, explains how she used pieces of an old chicken pen to create a barrier to prevent burrowers from tearing up the garden….
Category: General Info Tags: barrier, burrow, burrower, chicken, garden, ground squirrels, mesh, pen, recycle, repurpose, reuse, wire
Posted on April 23, 2020 by Anne Zachry
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This is Episode 1 of our Vlog, Food for Thought. This episode is titled, “Food Security During Times of Crisis.” This video discusses the use of an old urban gardening technique, self-watering containers made from 5-gallon buckets, as a means of ensuring food security…
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Posted on August 17, 2017 by admin
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Okra, known as Lady Fingers in some parts of the world, forms an elongated fruit from each flower. The flowers only last for a day or two and the fruits are ready to pick just a few days after that. Okra is most commonly…
Category: General Info Tags: conservation, conserve, container, flower, food, freedom, fruit, garden, grow, hunger, independence, lady fingers, non-GMO, okra, organic, plant, poverty, recycle, security, self-watering, vegetable, water
Posted on April 28, 2017 by Anne Zachry
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About a year ago, I encountered my friend, Avanish, on Facebook through mutual online friends in the organic gardening realm of the web. We both had a common interest in sustainable living and our online conversations started around Learn & Grow. At about that…
Category: Children & Youth in India, For K-12 Teachers, For Students, General Info Tags: chicken, container, curriculum, DIY, educational, egg, food, fruit, garden, gardener, gardening, grow, hen, how-to, hunger, independence, india, laying, learn, learn & grow, learning, organic, poverty, security, self-watering, series, teaching, vegetable
Posted on July 4, 2016 by Anne Zachry
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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….
Category: 10th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 12th Grade, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 9th Grade, For K-12 Teachers, For Parents, For Students, General Info, Homeschooling, In the News, Kindergarten Tags: conservation, crisis, food, garden, grow, hunger, recycle, recycling, shortage, venezuela, water
Posted on June 12, 2016 by admin
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At first, there’s the female flower with a little green bulb behind it. Pollen from the male flowers, which are on straight stems, fertilize the female flower, causing the little green bulb to develop into a squash fruit. Once the flower has been fertilized,…
Category: For K-12 Teachers, For Parents, For Students Tags: bucket, conservation, container, cook, food, garden, organic, parent, project, recycle, recycling, self-watering, squash, student, sub-irrigation, subirrigation, teacher, water
Posted on October 26, 2014 by Anne Zachry
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Our Learn & Grow Educational Series test garden was started in June 2013 as an experiment motivated by my personal curiosity about food, people’s relationships with it, their understandings about where food comes from, food education in our schools, the nutritional values of food…
Category: For K-12 Teachers, For Parents, For Students, General Info Tags: bucket, container, fertilizer, food, food desert, food-safe, fruit, garden, move, moving, non-GMO, organic, recycle, relocate, safe, self-watering, soil, sub-irrigation, subirrigation, transplant, used, vegetable, veggie, water
