Category Archives: Special Events
A Pizza to Remember
This week, 8th graders are marking the close of their Edible Schoolyard experience with unforgettable pizzas made from scratch and cooked in the wood-fired oven. The garden is filled with the mouthwatering fragrance of pesto, caramelized onions, aromatic herbs, and garlic. Some students shared that they have been waiting for this moment since the 6th [...]
The Edible Schoolyard Plant Sale
The Edible Schoolyard plant sale was a huge success. Thank you to everyone who came and supported us. Mark your calendar for next years plant sale on Mother’s Day weekend 2011! Below are a few highlights:
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Preparing for the Plant Sale
The garden is humming with preparations for the plant sale festivities, which are coming up this weekend. Staff and volunteers are painting colorful signs to direct visitors at the event. We are splitting wood to fire up our pizza oven for the hundreds of delicious pizzas that will be freshly made and sold. The lettuce [...]
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Wreath Making
There is no snow on the ground in Berkeley around the winter holidays, but that does not mean that here at the Edible Schoolyard we don’t celebrate the changing of the seasons. This week we had our annual holiday wreath making party, guided by Wendy Johnson, who has been our advisor and mentor since the [...]
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Harvest to Home
The Tuesday before Thanksgiving marks the Edible Schoolyard’s annual Harvest to Home. The Harvest to Home is a chance for students at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School to bring a little piece of the Edible Schoolyard back to their homes. Our garden staff harvests the garden and creates bunches, bags, and bouquets for students [...]
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The Edible Schoolyard at Greensboro Children’s Museum
Last month, Alice and I traveled to North Carolina for the groundbreaking and related festivities at our Edible Schoolyard affiliate at Greensboro Children’s Museum. Three days of events celebrating the formal launch of the ESY program included an outdoor community breakfast, donor lunches in the kitchen classroom, and a dinner hosted by Dennis and Nancy [...]
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2009 ELL Dinner
On Monday night, members of the Edible Schoolyard and King Middle School staffs hosted a dinner in our kitchen for students in the English Language Learner program and their families. Earlier in the school day, ELL students prepared in class a garden salad of cucumbers, tomatoes, summer squash, bell peppers, and fresh herbs to contribute [...]
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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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