Learn & Grow Educational Series

Grow From the Heart Positive Affirmation

July 10, 2023 Anne M. Zachry, Creator

The “Grow From the Heart” Campaign (GFHC) connects the Learn & Grow curriculum with preventing/resolving real-life problems in a way that encourages people to be kind and loving to themselves and others.

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Grow From the Heart Positive Affirmation

July 3, 2023 Anne M. Zachry, CreatorLeave a comment

Grow From the Heart Positive Affirmation

June 27, 2023 Anne M. Zachry, Creator

Grow From the Heart Positive Affirmation

June 19, 2023 Anne M. Zachry, CreatorLeave a comment

Food for Thought – Episode 3: Teaching How Systems Work Through Gardening

May 22, 2020 Anne ZachryLeave a comment

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 …

Let Us Make You a Garden

May 19, 2020 Anne Zachry

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 parts, and deliver your container garden to you using proper social distancing measures and safety equipment. …

From Our Garden: Okra

August 17, 2017 Anne ZachryLeave a comment

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 prepared in stir fries and sautées. This okra plant is growing in a self-watering container made …

New Self-Watering Container Garden Built in India

April 28, 2017 Anne ZachryLeave a comment

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 …

From Bucket to Table: The Life Story of a Squash

June 12, 2016 Anne M. Zachry, CreatorLeave a comment

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, it dries up and the little green bulb grows into a new, developing squash fruit. Over …

Relocating a Self-Watering Bucket Container Garden

October 26, 2014 Anne ZachryLeave a comment

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 served to students in our public schools, the relationships between nutrition and student success, and the …