Monthly Archives: July 2009
The First Edible Schoolyard Academy
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 [...]
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A Day to Beat All Days!
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
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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Summer at the Edible Schoolyard