Carthay Environmental Studies Botanical School Gardens

This FREE 4-part webinar series will offer clear and direct guidance for why and how your district can better invest in outdoor education using these resources.
In each session a panel of expert speakers and school, district, and state-level practitioners will present data and experiences to support you to take action now to build out the supports needed to get more students learning outside more of the time. Across all sessions information will be shared to center equity and support funding strategies as well as allow time for questions and discussion. Educational leaders at the state, district and school levels are encouraged to attend.
Series Schedule:
April 6, 2022: Physical and Mental Health Benefits of Outdoor Learning hosted by Big Green
April 27, 2022: Teaching and Learning Outside hosted by Out Teach
May 11, 2022: Creating Outdoor Spaces: The Infrastructure of Living Schoolyards hosted by Green Schoolyards America
May 25, 2022: Equity in Outdoor Education & Environmental Justice hosted by EcoRise.

biggreen.org

Parks provide so many benefits to communities, but not everyone has equal access to these spaces. In LA, transforming already existing Los Angeles Unified School District schoolyards into vibrant green spaces would bring over 1 million Angelenos to within a 10-min walk of a park.

To learn about how we are working with a coalition of partners in Los Angeles, download out special report “Greener Schoolyards for Los Angeles,” here ➡️ https://bit.ly/3mGXtwt

Join Su Oh, Senior Vice President of Exhibition, Education and Community Engagement, and Molly Porter, Director of Education, as they explain how NHM's education team is helping local schools with distance learning by developing lesson plans, activities, and hosting student webinars and virtual educator workshops.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: NHMLAC Happy Hour with Su Oh and Molly Porter. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join us for NHMLAC Happy Hour with Su Oh and Molly Porter! Join Su Oh, Senior Vice President of Exhibition, Education and Community Engagement, and Molly Porter, Director of Education, as they explain how NHM's education team is helping local schools with distance learning by developing lesson plans...

https://edibleschoolyard.org/training

Training | The Edible Schoolyard Project We train educators, gardeners, chefs, and advocates from all over the world to seed and grow edible education in their schools, cafeterias, and communities. Join us to learn and share core principles and practical tools for engaging students in academics, sensory learning, and culturally responsive....

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/if-everyone-ate-beans-instead-of-beef/535536/

If Everyone Ate Beans Instead of Beef With one dietary change, the U.S. could hypothetically get 74 percent of the way to meeting 2020 greenhouse-gas emission goals.

https://ecologyforthemasses.com/2019/06/27/biodiverse-gardens-where-doing-less-is-more/

Biodiverse Gardens: Where Doing Less is More How do you make your garden more biodiversity-friendly? During my time at the Futurum exhibition at The Big Challenge Science Festival, I spent a lot of time talking to people who expressed a desi…

Garden Team meeting on Thursday, April 4th at 3:30pm.

http://www.larchmontbuzz.com/larchmont-village-news/carthay-community-school-park-opened-friday/

Carthay Community School Park Opened Friday - Larchmont Buzz - Hancock Park News

A fascinating program on nature and natural settings and how they support elementary education --
http://www.environment.ucla.edu/lakretz/events/482

Rethinking the Value of Nature from Education to Health, The UCLA La Kretz Center for California... Rethinking the Value of Nature from Education to Health, The UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Dear Educators,

Our ninth session is coming up next Saturday, April 9th from 9am-noon on Seed Saving. Seed saving is a perfect way to end the school year. Your winter and spring crops should be going to seed so gathering them up gives everyone something to look forward to: planting home-grown seeds in the fall! Saving seeds is also a great way to save money on garden expenses. Seed saving is a time honored practice and means of preserving both genetic and cultural diversity. Participants will learn a little bit about plant genetics and some simple methods for cleaning and storing seeds for future planting. We’ll discuss the easiest plants to save seeds from and how to use this in the classroom. Math, science, social studies and language arts are all tied in to this sustainable practice.

Please let me know by next Wednesday, April 6th, whether or not you plan to attend. I will send out another registration reminder next week.

Cheers,
Courtney

Courtney Allen
Botanical Education Manager
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108
[email protected]
Phone: 626.405.3408
Fax: 626.793.9522

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/beverly-bell/putting-the-culture-back-_b_3384507.html

Putting the Culture Back in Agriculture: Reviving Native Food and Farming Traditions By Tory Field and Beverly Bell Part 17 of the Harvesting Justice series "At one point 'agriculture' was about the culture of food. Losing that culture, in favor of an American cultural monocrop, ...