“Does a school-based gardening, nutrition, and cooking intervention affect changes in metabolic outcomes in elementary schoolchildren?” YES!, concluded a 3-year study in Austin, TX, published in Jan 2023 in the “Journal of the American Medical Association.” Children who participated in the...
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Happy New Year from Environmental Charter Middle School where STEM Program Director Meghan Nealon is empowering middle school students through project-based learning in the garden, and providing PreK-2 students with bilingual STEAM, nutrition and garden curricula created by the teens. But you...
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Munina Lam’s wonderful article brings GrowingGreat to life, beginning with: “Gathering around a row of raised garden beds on a recent Monday afternoon, kindergarten students peer through magnifying glasses to observe something: a red wiggler worm making its way through a plastic...
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If you look closely, you can see the huge, heavy bag of soil in the middle of this photo. With teamwork, students in the CHOICE program at Mira Costa High School, filled two new planters on wheels to start their GrowingGreat garden this fall. Thank you to Costa Alum Kirra Troeger and former...
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Adriana Bikouvaris, GrowingGreat’s Early Childhood Program Manager, was excited to make one of her first visits to meet the children at Roberti Early Education Center (EEC). The preschoolers had a great time studying different kinds of seeds together and will be planting soon! Roberti is...
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It was a beautiful morning at Glenfeliz Early Education Center when Jennifer, Adriana and Max came by for a special occasion. Just as we were on the cusp of Summer, our great friend Cyrene St. Amant had done GrowingGreat a tremendous favor by orchestrating a demonstration for 17 LAUSD early...
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Mr. Max and his friends at Maple Primary Center had a special surprise visit from their very own caterpillar. It was super fun for all the kids to see and touch. “Inchy” had plenty of love from all. The students knew the life cycle of butterflies and did some absolutely gorgeous...
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Do you want to win 2 tickets to Jack Johnson’s All At Once Concert at the Hollywood Bowl on October 1st?? You can enter to win by registering for GrowingGreat’s Virtual Spring Showcase, coming up on May 11, and making a donation of any size! Click here to register. Good luck!
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GrowingGreat STEM Educator Maxwell Watson dissects lima beans and corn with students at KIPP Empower Academy to find out. Curious? If you’d like to try this activity yourself, email us at info@growinggreat.org.
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Click on the image above to see what happened after all that rain!
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