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 …
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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 …
New Self-Watering Container Garden Built in India
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 same time, the virtual assistant I’d had could no longer continue in the position and I …
