Georgia School Garden Network
A peer-to-peer educators' platform for sharing ways to help K - 12 students make real life connections in outdoor classrooms
Georgia School Garden Network (GSGN) is a peer-to-peer network of educators who encourage and empower each other to grow school gardens that serve as AMAZING TOOLS for engaging students in learning that connects real life and academics.
11/10/2024
Have you taken 9 seconds to vote yet? 😅🙏😇 Please vote (family members can vote, too!)....I love that I don't have to ask for money, just 9 seconds of your time!! 💚
10/10/2024
Today we had the Latin American Association - Asociación Latinoamericana videotaping at the school garden - they are featuring our very own Beatriz González (Lesbia) in their LAA Stories Project!🤩Lesbia runs "Cultivando!" my nonprofit's urban agriculture program for Spanish speaking adults and youth. If you VOTE FOR ME🎉🎉 (and get your family + 500 of your closes friends to vote too!😅) I will win $30,000 for Gardens4GrowingCommunity. 100% of that award will go towards helping Cultivando! and our other urban farming and school garden programs continue....it takes about 9 seconds and will make a HUGE difference for the communities we support! https://www.coxenterprises.com/our-impact/cox-conserves-heroes 👀🗳✅😇
10/05/2023
Tomorrow morning at 7:30 AM!
Whether you are new to gardening or you want to share your expertise, Morning Garden Club is a series of mini webinars to connect with other school gardeners and learn specific tips for make your garden program a success.
May 11, 7:30-8:00 AM: "Planting Sweet Potatoes in your School Garden'' The perfect over-summer crop for any school garden, sweet potatoes require very little maintenance and can be planted in May before you leave for summer break. Learn tips for sourcing, planting, caring for, and harvesting sweet potatoes with Wylde Center Educator, Dory Cooper.
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06/02/2023
Warm spring-like days are ahead which means spring planting fever! We still have room for you to join Wylde Center's live webinar on all the veggies you can plant in March. Don't miss it!!
Grow a spring vegetable garden - February 8, 2023 @ 7 PM Kick off a new growing year by planting a spring vegetable garden. Join Stephanie Van Parys, Executive Director of Wylde Center and horticulturist to learn what vegetables to include in your spring garden. She will share tips on what to plant, how to plant, and tips for a successful and bountiful ha...
01/12/2022
Learn more and RSVP at wyldecenter.org/event
What do I need to do with my school garden before I leave for Winter Break? ❄️
This is a question our Education Team gets often, so we’re hosting a webinar! Grab your coffee and join our “Morning School Garden Club” at 7:30AM on Dec 8 to learn and share tips for over-wintering your school garden.
Learn more and RSVP at wyldecenter.org/event
20/09/2022
Calling all Educators! Wylde Center is hosting a Farm to School Open House event on Wed Oct 19 at our Oakhurst Garden!
This is a celebration of and an opportunity for local educators to:
🥕Learn more about the Wylde Center’s school programs
👩🏼🌾 Tour the garden and talk to experts
🍅 Try refreshments created by using in season produce and healthy ingredients
🌽 Meet other educators interested in Farm to School Initiatives
🐓 Check out our new chicken coop
🚌Enter to win a free field trip for your grade level!
This event is free and RSVP is recommended so we can be best prepared. Use this link for more information and to RSVP https://www.wyldecenter.org/event/113862/
16/08/2022
Wylde Center is hiring!
https://www.wyldecenter.org/job-openings/
Wylde Center is hiring!
To check out the details of the following positions, visit https://www.wyldecenter.org/job-openings/
Greenspace and Facilities Director Full time
Facilities Manager (new position) Part time
Afterschool Manager (new position) Full time
Lead Educator Full time
Educator Part-time
Thanks!
Wylde Center
Wylde Center sends out a monthly Farm to School newsletter chock full of articles, links, videos, and ideas you can use in your classroom. Sign up through the link and check out past newsletters.
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Outdoor classrooms reenergize kids during the pandemic
If a school has a campus, these healthy classrooms are in place....has anyone seen other teachers taking advantage of their school garden during the pandemic? Project Learning Tree
gwinnettdailypost.com When the pandemic forced his school to go to online learning, fifth-grader Bergen Manzella spent six hours a day staring at his computer screen.
Have a good day y’all! 💚
Wylde Center has another gardening webinar scheduled for December 11 that is free for teachers.
Wylde Center is excited to host local Decatur fruit-grower, Melissa Kacalamos, for the next installment of our Lunch & Learn webinar series on Friday, December 11 at 12 PM.
The fruits commonly available at the supermarket are generally hard to grow in our region, but many more obscure fruits are actually very easy to grow here. In this webinar, Melissa Kacalanos, local gardener, will teach about the easiest and most rewarding fruits to grow organically in our area.
Webinar will be recorded if you can't make the specific time.
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Know a nature-loving student who might be interested in earning some scholarship money? Please share the details at www.gacd.us/scholarships Georgia.USA Georgia Association of Conservation Districts
Symbolic Migration
Connect students (virtual or in person!) to butterflies, subject content and kids their age in Mexico!
journeynorth.org About the Symbolic Migration Welcome to the 25th Anniversary of the Symbolic Migration Project You are invited to participate in the 25th annual Symbolic Monarch Butterfly Migration Project with youth from across North America. The annual migration of millions of monarchs across North America is a.....
Georgia Organics is hosting a free webinar for teachers on September 30. Looks fantastic.
Turnip the Volume on Sensory Education
Join a teacher and a farmer in an interactive, hands-on exploration of what farm to school is and how it can serve you and your students now more than ever. Leave equipped with October Farm to School Month resources to get started right away! We’ll demo a taste test, a quick recipe, a simple gardening activity, and how to teach literacy through growing turnips in a garden. This session is free, but registration is required.
Sept. 30 at 3 p.m.
Sign up here: https://gfft.georgiaorganics.org/virtual-events
How to use outdoor learning spaces to help control COVID-19 transmission as schools reopen — Green Schoolyards America
Inspiration? Maybe virtual isn’t the only way 😳 Whether you watch the live or recorded version, maybe give the idea some air time? 🤩
greenschoolyards.org The National COVID-19 Outdoor Learning Initiative is hosting an online Q&A session with Dr. Caesar Djavaherian, Co-founder and Medical Director at Carbon Health, and Dr. Nooshin Razani, Associate Adjunct Professor at UCSF, to discuss how to use outdoor schoolyard spaces to control viral transmis
Hope this affirmation helps you weather this storm...be well! 💚🤗
A book club for teachers who love nature - how can you resist? 💚
EEA is launching a new book club called GreenSleeves! Our first selection will be Angelou Ezeilo’s Engage, Connect, Protect: Empowering Diverse Youth As Environmental Leaders. The author will join us for a Zoom discussion on August 31 at 6:00 pm. Her book explodes a widespread myth that environmental issues are primarily of interest to wealthy white communities and reveals the deep and abiding interest that communities of color - many located in degraded and polluted areas - have in our collective environment. Part biography, part commentary, and part toolkit, this book focuses on solutions and resources. We hope you'll join us for an inspiring evening. Grab a copy of the book and jump in. Here's an excerpt to get you started:http://nsp-blurbs.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/9780865719187_excerpt.pdf To register for the EEA Book Club and receive a link to the Zoom session for this book, please complete the RSVP form at the bottom of this web page: https://eeageorgia.weebly.com/book-club.html
“I’ve often considered it strange that the most intellectual creature ever to walk the earth is destroying its only home. This wonderful story, What Happened When We All Stopped, helps parents and their children to overcome the disconnect between our clever brains and our loving compassionate hearts. We must find a way of living in harmony with nature so that both may thrive. I hope this story book inspires people of all ages to play their part in healing the harm we have inflicted so that together we can create a new future.” Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE
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