When I first started being the lead volunteer at our daughter’s elementary school garden, I was eager to get a lunch time Garden Club going. It was sparsely attended at first, but soon it became pretty popular because the students loved how they got to rotate through the tasks like...
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Being the newest member of GrowingGreat over the summer has given me the opportunity to observe my fellow Garden Educators in our various programs across Los Angeles. I enjoyed seeing our Early Childhood Program Manager Adriana Bikouvaris teach in creative ways that helped the children...
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GrowingGreat welcomes Detroit Zoo, Discovery Place Kids (pictured above), Marbles Kids Museum, and Saint Louis Science Center to our 2023-24 STEAM Collaborative! Thank you to American Honda Motor Company for sponsoring this program for science educators across the country to share best...
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The children vary, just as the plants. There are popular kids, nerdy kids, shy kids, kids with special needs, and kids who are outgoing — all of them running to the garden to grow together. They water, weed, and share that hour with such pride and joy. I am in awe of how they come to
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Vermonica is overjoyed to be joining the GrowingGreat family as the new Early Childhood Garden Educator. She has a great passion for working with children, including those with special needs, and for teaching others about living a healthy lifestyle. She has worked as a Behavioral Therapist doing...
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Early Childhood Program Manager Adriana Bikouvaris and Lead STEM Educator Maxwell Watson traveled to Santa Clara for the California Association for the Education of Young Children conference on April 21-22. Their presentation, “Learn with me/Aprende conmigo”, featured our popular...
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“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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