GrowingGreat’s New Garden Program at Leuzinger High School
GrowingGreat is empowering teens to take the lead in growing their own sustainable garden.
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GrowingGreat Year-End Giving
Many young students like Emily only experience living, growing things — like the smell of rosemary — in the tiny garden at her preschool. Please check out our year-end giving campaign here: https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/growinggreatfundraiser. With your support, GrowingGreat can...
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Leuzinger High School Environmental Careers Academy Green Alliance Club: guest blog by Gloria Sanchez
GrowingGreat began working with us, Leuzinger High School Environmental Careers Academy Green Alliance Club (ECAGA), in mid-September. We typically meet with Sharon Cohen, our lovely GrowingGreat Garden Educator, every week. Our club members dedicate their Wednesday afternoons to the garden with...
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Can you find the pumpkin in this picture?
It is growing in a very small front yard here in Los Angeles. We aren’t the only ones who love pumpkins. One of our colleagues from Exploration Place, a science center in Kansas, shared her pumpkin dissection activity with GrowingGreat. If you would like to try it with your kids, please email...
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GrowingGreat Welcomes Inner-City Preschoolers Back to School
In July and August GrowingGreat staff is hosting nutrition education booths at Caruso Head Start ,W.M. Keck Primary Center Head Start and other Para Los Niños sites’ Parent Orientation programs, in both Spanish and English. Parents and students participate in GrowingGreat’s hands-on activity...
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First Graders’ “Love” and “Learn” Murals
On June 7, Deloitte Consulting volunteers rolled up their sleeves and joined us at two GrowingGreat partner sites for their annual Impact Day. Twenty volunteers came to Maple Primary Center in South Los Angeles where they helped kindergarten and first graders paint the two murals pictured above...
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GrowingGreat Celebrates our Partnership with Maple Primary Center and our 20th Anniversary
On April 27, GrowingGreat shared our program with Maple Primary Center in South Los Angeles with our supporters, as we celebrated our 20th anniversary at a delicious Farm to Table dinner under the stars. We recognized the Association of Science-Technology Centers with our leadership award for...
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GrowingGreat 20th Anniversary Annual Report
We are thrilled to share all of our exciting programs from this past year in our annual report. Please click here to read a copy. And, if you would like to celebrate our anniversary with us on April 27, we still have a few tables left. Please click here for all the details about Farm
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Growing Great Leadership Award goes to Association of Science-Technology Centers
GrowingGreat is excited to announce that our Leadership Award recipient at the Farm to Table benefit on April 27 will be the national Association of Science-Technology Centers for their support of the My First Garden network. This network, led by GrowingGreat, is a collaborative of science...
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GrowingGreat Across the Country
GrowingGreat just got back from the National Association for the Education of Young Children conference in Washington, DC. We had over 100 preschool teachers participating in our garden, nutrition and STEM activities! Watch our My First Garden webinar led by GrowingGreat with the Association of...
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