As part of our goal to highlight individuals who are influential in helping kids learn about and eat more real food, Root 4 Kids recently challenged Iowa’s 15 pioneering Farm to School chapters to participate in a contest!
Tag Archives: gardens
What’s planted first — the cabbage or the carrot?
May 9, 2011 – 6:59 pm
If what to plant when is more perplexing to you than “What comes first, the chicken or the egg?” read on.
What’s in season? Easy tools we love.
March 22, 2011 – 8:57 pm
For many of us, choosing in-season vegetables and fruits is a healthy food goal. But, unless you grew up gardening, it’s not always easy to know what you should be looking for! Talking to growers at your local Farmer’s Market is a wonderful way to get an understanding of what’s growing right now in your local area, but we also like these web-based tools. Here are our favorite seasonal-eating picks.
Rosytta E.’s Story
January 15, 2011 – 12:22 am
MY FAMILY HAS STARTED TO PLANT A FRUIT AND VEGGIE GARDEN IN MY HOUSE, THE PLANTS CONSISTS OF PAPAYA, LEMON, CHILE, MELON, MANGO, AND BEANS, MY DAD HAS ALWAYS ENCOURAGED US TO EAT THE VEGGIES IN OUR PLATES AND ESSPCIALLY THE FRUITS. ALTHOUGH I DISLIKE CARROTS I PLEDGE TO EAT MORE, AND EVEN PLANT SOME [...]
Richmond Elementary JMP, Portland, OR
December 10, 2010 – 5:46 pm
Richmond Elementary JMP is a Japanese Immersion Program and part of Portland Public Schools. The program began in 1989 and currently services 620 students. The garden program is run and coordinated by the Super Green Team a committee of the PTA. Over the last two years we have made a great deal of progress in [...]
Veggie Spotlight: Kale
December 9, 2010 – 9:44 pm
A descendant of cabbage, kale was the most popular green vegetable in Europe during the Middle Ages before arriving in the United States from English settlers in the 17th century. Although it can be found in markets year round, it tastes sweeter in its season, the middle of winter to spring. Did you know kale [...]
Crocker/Riverside Elementary School, Sacramento, CA
December 7, 2010 – 7:02 pm
Our school began a parent volunteer Garden Committee 6 years ago, where parent volunteers worked hard at researching, educating ourselves, planning, grant writing, building gardens, piloting lessons, and creating and implementing a Garden Docent Program. We built 5 redwood beds, 10′ x 4′ wide and an oval retaining brick wall garden bed 14′ x 6′ [...]
Julian Elementary, Julian, CA
December 7, 2010 – 6:57 pm
Although we are only 1 ½ years into our school-wide garden program, we are enthusiastic and ambitious. There are many things in our garden that one would expect to see in school garden. We are growing fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers; we do school-wide lunch scrap composting; we have everyone from students to staff using [...]
PS 205 Q: The Alexander Graham Bell School, Bayside, NY
December 2, 2010 – 1:36 am
We started our first Food Garden in 1998. We are a New York City School. The children in our school (grades Pre-K to 5) all get to go to our garden. Many children from the District 75 Special Education School PS 224 housed here at PS 205 also help in the garden. We plant tomatoes, [...]
Dolan Middle School, Stamford, CT
December 1, 2010 – 10:08 pm
In the spring of 2009, Andrea, a phys ed teacher, and I started a vegetable garden at Dolan Middle School, in Stamford, CT. We were convinced that our kids needed to connect with the earth and enjoy the process of growing food from seed to table. Eight framed, raised beds, donations of compost, lots of [...]
