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 4: Teaching Diversity Appreciation Via Permaculture

August 18, 2020 Anne ZachryLeave a comment

In our fourth episode of Food for Thought, Anne discusses how project-based instruction using companion planting and other polyculture techniques illustrate how diversity is a natural phenomenon that can be used to maximize the benefits for all involved. It can serve as a neutral topic of instruction illustrating that understanding how things naturally work best together produces superior results than …

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 …

Food for Thought – Episode 2: Teaching Long-Term Planning to Kids with Gardening

May 19, 2020 Anne ZachryLeave a comment

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 Instagram: https://instagram.com/learngrowedseries Follow Us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/LearnAndGrowEdSeries Donate: https://paypal.me/learnandgrow Transcript of Audio from Video: Note: The …

Food for Thought – Episode 1: Food Security During Times of Crisis

April 23, 2020 Anne Zachry1 Comment

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 for individuals, families, and communities regardless of the economy and condition of the commercialized food supply. …

The Value of Patience

June 19, 2019 Anne ZachryLeave a comment

artichokes growing in a self-watering container in the Learn & Grow test garden

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 rather than logic to misperceive this constant stream of instant gratification as the only kind of …

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 …