Category Archives: Special Events

Special events happening at the Edible Schoolyard!

Wreath Making

By Shaina Robbins | Published: December 18, 2009
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

By Shaina Robbins | Published: November 25, 2009
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

By Marsha Guerrero | Published: November 2, 2009
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

By Joyce Lin-Conrad | Published: October 2, 2009
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 [...]
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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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Our Summer Farm Stand

By Joyce Lin-Conrad | Published: June 24, 2009
This morning, the students warmed up for a big garden harvest with stretching and a little yoga in the oak tree circle near the north entrance to the garden. Kyle led the group in moon salutations and warrior pose. Those who started off skeptical quickly became the fiercest warriors among us! We then broke off into [...]
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We Have the Best Volunteers!

By Kyle Cornforth | Published: June 4, 2009
We have thirty incredible volunteers come to ESY once a week to work with classes, spend time with our students, or tackle a daunting weeding project. Last night was our chance to show them how much we appreciate their gift of time and hard work by hosting our annual Volunteer Appreciation Dinner. Of course, they had [...]
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Alabama Chanin at the Edible Schoolyard

By Kyle Cornforth | Published: June 3, 2009
Natalie Chanin and Kay Woehle from Alabama Chanin came to the Edible Schoolyard on Saturday, May 30th and hosted a stitching workshop. Twelve crafty women from the Bay Area participated in the day and we had a sliver of the south as we sat and sewed and listened to Natalie’s amazing stories about how her business [...]
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