D.C. School Garden Week:
Oct. 11-16, 2010

Celebrate Healthy Kids in October!
School Garden Week and Local Flavor Week are joining forces this year to celebrate the passage of the DC Healthy Schools Act. Stay tuned for a full listing of community events during the week of October 11 – 16, 2010, including garden tours, VIP speakers, educational programs and more! Click here for more information.

Get Out and Garden! Workshop Series

In our annual spring workshop, learn how to assess your schoolyard’s potential for different types of learning gardens, address learning standards through simple and engaging gardening activities, spark your students’ interest in their own environment by using easy composting and vermiculture practices. You will learn growing techniques for native plants and edible crops and receive a variety of garden-based curriculum and support materials, including garden bags, watershed maps, and resources. Teachers will also be eligible to receive 6-hours of professional devleopment credit for recertification.

Past workshop topics have also included:
-using reading engagement strategies with garden-based lessons;
-edible schoolyards, with a focus on cooking and nutrition (click here and here to read The Slow Cook blog entries describing the event)
-planning outdoor classrooms and how to green your school grounds
-integrating plants into your curriculum

Growing Together - Spring/Summer 2009

This spring, DCSG worked on a pilot project with Bancroft ES and Thurgood Marshall Academy PCS to grow vegetable seedlings in the classroom and to sell at the Mount Pleasant Farmer's Market. Students enrolled in summer school have also started to sell the produce. Students working with City Blossoms have sold soaps enhanced with herbs that they have grown, too. Visit the Mt. Pleasant Farmer's Market on July 25, August 8, and August 22 and support our students! For more information, please contact Lee Cain.

Schoolyards Tours
Each year, we organize a schoolyards tour of different types of projects at DC schools. This event has been integrated in our DC School Garden Week celebration.

To keep informed future DCSG happenings, please join our Yahoo Group.