Integrating gardens into the curriculum of schools across America...
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Providing schools with knowledge to help improve the nutritional value of school food...
School Gardens, Local Farms to Schools and School Meal Reform
Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 08:06 PM
Our vision is to encourage all schools to have seasonal school gardens and school garden curriculum to provide garden-based learning experiences for students. We want to expose children to fresh seasonal vegetables, and encourage them to make better nutritional decisions improving overall health and education.
Although we believe in setting a foundation through the basic understanding of school gardening, we understand that is only a starting point. It is imperative to integrate school garden programs with local farms and provide better nutritional food for students. By encouraging interaction between local farmers and schools, children can understand more of where their food comes from while farmers reduce their carbon footprint by delivering locally.
We also believe it is essential to reform the nutritional standards by which school meals are served. Children will preform better in school if they are served the right kinds of nutritional food in a way that appeals to them. We want to encourage programs that are working on school meal reform throughout the country to use eachother, along with local farms and school gardens to form the ideal vision of nutrition and education.
Pictures are of school garden in Mt. Rainer, Maryland, Spring 2010
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What is Planting Progress?
Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 01:08 PM
The following are just a few positive impacts we believe will happen if people start to work hand in hand.
- School Gardens and Educational Impact. Children will learn where their food originates, be exposed to tangible nutritional education and ultimately perform better in school if they incorporate a plant based diet into their lifestyle.
- School Gardens and Health Impact. By teaching children the benefits of a plant based diet the rates of obesity, attention disorders, and depression can be lowered.
- School Gardens and Environmental Impact. Raising children to become environmental stewards will help transition this country into the sustainable leader it is striving to become. Children will have more of an understanding of the earth, a stronger connectivity to nature and a greater desire to preserve it. One way this can be done is throughSquare Foot Gardening.
Cooking in the Classroom
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @ 12:08 PM
Ever since Ms. Pauline realized there was a garden behind the day care she works at in Massachusetts she thought the children should have a part in it. After inquiring about the garden, she found that she could use the zucchinis grown in the garden and teach the children how to cook zucchini bread.
“I was inspired by Planting Progress.” She said
“I saw a garden in the back of the day care and thought to myself, the children need to learn where their food comes from. So I decided to show them.” Ms. Pauline said.
The children made zucchini bread and according to Ms. Pauline, “They came to school the next day really excited about what they had done. A few of them wanted the recipe to take home to their parents.”
School Gardens with Native Plant Species
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 03:08 PM
Imagine seeing a plastic cup in the mountains of eastern West Virginia fall into the beginning of the Potomac River. It’s easy to picture it sailing down river but it may be a little bit harder to imagine where it ends up. Perhaps as it is sailing down the river it meets more plastic cups that have fallen from different areas on the river. It’s possible that all the plastic cups could end up in the Chesapeake Bay in southern Virginia.
Please Vote for School Garden Project!
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 @ 11:08 AM
PlantingProgress is in contention for a $25,000 Pepsi Grant which is being democratically elected.
Throughout the whole month of August people who are registered at the Pepsi Refresh Project (which is simply filling out your name, email and very basic info) can vote for PlantingProgress’s cause everyday!
Please vote at http://www.refresheverything.com/schoolgardencurriculum
1,000 dollars per school for new gardens and curriculum!