garden adventures grow your food gardening and health program usgbc 2014

GARDEN ADVENTURESGrow Your Food Gardening

and Health Program

Mary Van DykeUS Green Building Council

2014

OverviewIntroduction• My Journey

Goals• Grow Food• Nutrition Education• Health and Activity

Garden Adventures Club• Plan and Site Set Up• Typical Session• Project Examples• Resources

My Journey

Arlington Traditional School

Community Links

Fall Garden Planning YouTube (4 mins)Spring Garden Planning YouTube (4 mins)

NB: VA 7b Frost Dates: first week November/first week April

Garden AdventuresAfter- School Enrichment

Risk and Plan B

Rules and Tools

Soil and Compost

Water Access

Garden ADVENTURES Typical Session

• Healthy Snack: Produce of the Week• Story Time• Nutrition and Garden Education• Garden Activity• Observe and Journal• Take Home• Outreach to Community

• oranges, celery, bananas, avocado, grapes, carrots, strawberries, rhubarb, green veggies, cantaloupe, sunflower seeds, radishes, pineapple

Healthy SnackSpring - Produce of the Week

Story Time

Story Time

Nutrition and Garden Education

Tools

Microscopes and Cameras

Plant, Harvest and TasteCool Weather Crops

Plant, Harvest and TasteCool Weather Crops

• Try– Lettuce– Peas– Kohlrabi– Radishes– Carrots– Fava Beans– Kale– Strawberries– Carrots

Plant Hot Weather Crops

• Try– Basil– Tomatillos– Three or Four Sisters:• Squash, Corn,

Beans, Sunflowers

– Eggplant– Okra– Gourds, Pumpkins– Figs

Plant for Pollinators

Observe

WEEDING

RULES!

Journal

Communicate Face-to-Face and Email

• Communicate with families beforeand after each session

• Train and mentor volunteers

• Celebrate with community

• Blog• Media

Signs and Labels

Harvest WheatMake Bread

Bean Teepee

Tomatillos and Green Salsa

Celebrate

Mary Van Dyke571 425 5278

maryvandyke4@gmail.comGreenSTEMLearning

Thank You!

Try it and see if you like it…

GARDEN ADVENTURESRESOURCEShttp://goo.gl/jhXoJY

Compiled Bloghttp://goo.gl/iwGJym

Andwww.apsva.us/Page/3592

To Our Health, Growing Foodand Community!