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Garden Adventures: Grow Eat and Learn in your School Yard. Garden Adventures Enrichment After-School Program Growing Herbs, Fruit and Vegetables - this ppt highlights the Spring Ten Week program at Arlington Traditional School
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Overview • Introduc/on • Garden Adventures A4er-‐School Club • Goals: Grow food, health and nutri/on • Plan and site set up • Typical session • Project examples
• Resources for growing food, gardening and nutri/on educa/on
My Journey
Arlington Tradi/onal School
Community Links
Fall Garden Planning YouTube (4 mins) Spring Garden Planning YouTube (4 mins)
NB: VA 7b Frost Dates: first week November/first week April
Garden Adventures
A4er-‐ School Enrichment
Risk and Plan B
Rules and Tools
Soil and Compost
Water Access
Garden ADVENTURES Typical Session
• Healthy Snack: Produce of the Week • Story Time
• Nutri/on and Garden Educa/on • Garden Ac/vity • Observe and Journal • Take Home
• Outreach to Community
• oranges, celery, bananas, avocado, grapes, carrots, strawberries, rhubarb, green veggies, cantaloupe, sunflower seeds, radishes, pineapple
Healthy Snack Spring -‐ Produce of the Week
Story Time
Story Time
Nutri/on and Garden Educa/on
Tools
Microscopes and Cameras
Plant, Harvest and Taste Cool Weather Crops
Plant, Harvest and Taste Cool Weather Crops
• Try – Le[uce – Peas – Kohlrabi – Radishes – Carrots – Fava Beans – Kale – Strawberries – Carrots
Plant Hot Weather Crops
• Try – Basil – Toma/llos – Three or Four Sisters: • Squash, Corn,
Beans, Sunflowers
– Eggplant – Okra – Gourds, Pumpkins – Figs
Plant for Pollinators
Observe
Journal
Communicate Face-‐to-‐Face and Email
• Communicate with parents each week, before and a4er the session
• Train and mentor volunteers
• Celebrate with PTA and wider community
• Media
Communicate Blog
• Arlington Tradi/onal School Garden Blog h[p://apsva.us/Page/3592 Then click on: March-‐ May 2011, Garden Adventures
• Garden Adventures Blog also compiled at h[p://goo.gl/iwGJym
Signs and Labels
Harvest Wheat Make Bread
Bean Teepee
Toma/llos and Green Salsa
Celebrate
Resources
• Garden Adventures: Website Links, Food and Nutri/on Curriculum, Story Time Books and Vegetable Growing and Snack Tips through the Year h[p://goo.gl/jhXoJY
• Junior Master Gardener Online h[p://www.jmgkids.us/
• Fall Garden Planning YouTube h[ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6lADk6Y0Xw
• Spring Garden Planning YouTube h[p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV860C4ShuU
Try it and see if you like it… • 2013: project PLANTS online
• 2014/2015: project PLANTS in print
Thanks to
• Candice Shoemaker • Erika Huber • Karen Lewis • Arlington Tradi/onal School Students, Staff, Parents, Volunteers
• Kansas Coopera/ve Extension • Virginia Coopera/ve Extension
To our Health, Growing Food and Community!