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EcoFarm Conference
As the thickest part of winter rolls around, the garden staff gets excited about the Ecological Farming Conference in Monterey. Amidst pouring rain, raging winds, and the occasional lull in the weather accented by rainbows, the garden teachers attended this year’s conference, entitled “EcoFarm: Where the Future is Planted.” The conference is an excellent opportunity [...]
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A Report Back on Counseling Enriched Curriculum Immersion Week
This past week, we tried something new to help us bridge lessons in the garden to those in the school classroom. We spent the days in the garden with King’s Counseling Enriched Curriculum (CEC) program, which is made up of students who, for a variety of reasons, do not thrive in mainstream classrooms. In previous [...]
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Edible Schoolyard at PS216 in Brooklyn
We are so proud to welcome our newest affiliate into the Edible Schoolyard family. PS216 in Gravesend, Brooklyn will be building an Edible Schoolyard kitchen and garden very soon, and Kim Severson from the New York Times has written a lovely piece all about it. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/dining/20edible.html
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Catching Water
Last winter, in the Edible Schoolyard garden, the 6th and 7th grade students installed a rainwater catchment system that can hold up to 6,000 gallons of water. From October to May, which is our rainy season in Berkeley, we captured and stored over 5,000 gallons of water. Our students calculated that for every inch of [...]
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A Simple Pasta Dough