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 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 June 19, 2019 by Anne Zachry
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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…
Category: 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 9th Grade, For K-12 Teachers, For Parents, General Info Tags: children, delayed gratification, food desert, food security, hunger, impulsivity, instruction, K-12, learning, organic gardening, poverty, recycling, self-watering containers, sustainability, teaching, water conservation
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
