Posted on August 18, 2020 by Anne Zachry
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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…
Category: For K-12 Teachers, For Parents, For Students, General Info Tags: accommodation, blind, disability, garden, gardener, gardening, grobucket, grotech, impairment, kit, organic gardening, self watering, self-watering, self-watering containers, selfwatering, sub-irrigate, sub-irrigation, subirrigate, subirrigation, universal design, vision, vision loss
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:…
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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…
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Posted on May 19, 2020 by Anne Zachry
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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…
Category: 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, Children & Youth in India, For K-12 Teachers, For Parents, General Info Tags: child, children, garden, gardening, goal-setting, goals, hands-on learning, learner, learning, long-term planning, parent, parenting, PBL, project based learning, project-based learning, student, teach by example, teacher, teaching
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…
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