Monthly Archives: July 2009

Summer at the Edible Schoolyard

By Joyce Lin-Conrad | Published: July 29, 2009
Now that our summer program and training academies have concluded, the kitchen classroom is closed as the King custodial staff waxes the floors, the office is preparing for a new year of volunteers and community events, and the garden staff finally has time to spend the entirety of the day cultivating, planting, and harvesting the [...]
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Academy Participants Share Their Thoughts

By Joyce Lin-Conrad | Published: July 27, 2009
On the final day of each of our two academies, we asked the participants to fill out an evaluation sharing their thoughts on what they learned, how well they connected with other teams from around the country, and the overall atmosphere and experience. The responses were overwhelmingly delightful and warm. Together as a group, we [...]
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The First Edible Schoolyard Academy

By Kyle Cornforth | Published: July 22, 2009
This July, the Edible Schoolyard hosted two academies. Each academy provided kitchen, garden, and classroom educators with tools for teaching Edible Education—an integrated approach to hands-on education in the kitchen, classroom, lunchroom, and garden. Educators and program administrators came from across California, throughout the United States as far as Hawaii, and the United Kingdom to learn first-hand [...]
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A Day to Beat All Days!

By Kyle Cornforth | Published: July 7, 2009
We had quite a day at the Edible Schoolyard today. Our summer program is still running at full speed and they started off the day by playing Capture the Flag in the garden. This got the kids very excited as they ran, jumped, rolled, crawled and plotted to get the other teams flag. While the [...]
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Searching for Contrasts in the Garden

By Joyce Lin-Conrad | Published: July 1, 2009
We started this morning by pairing off for a fun twist on a traditional scavenger hunt. Each team received an empty egg carton with two contrasting words written on the bottom. Our mission was to find six items that fell under the first category, and six items that fell under the second, contrasting category. When [...]
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