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Bluegrass
Food Security Summit Thursday
March 18 6-9pm Recognition Dinner Friday
March 19, 8-5pm Food Security Workshops in 4 tracks Crestwood
Christian Church 182
Bellefonte Dr. Lexington, KY Friday March 19 8-5pm Track
#3 Gardening with Class: Teacher PD Workshop-Integrating School Gardens,
Agricultural Literacy and Green Schools "Good Food For All Kids: A Garden At Every School
in Kentucky" Gardening with
Class workshop is designed with K-12 teachers in mind and will provide: 1) an over view
of the KY Green and Healthy Schools curriculum 2) update
reports from the field on school garden efforts in Kentucky 3) discussion of
challenges to instituting school gardens 4) opportunity
for hands-on project to build a worm composting bin 5) best practices
for linking school gardens to core curriculum 6) review
of importance of school gardens and food
security Rationale: Good Food For all Kids: A Garden at Every School in Kentucky! The diet of Kentucky's youth needs to improve. Hunger, bad nutrition and
obesity among children are leading causes of health risks and often contribute
to poor classroom performance. By planting a garden at every school in Kentucky,
we will ensure that every child has the opportunity to benefit from eating more
fresh healthy foods. A well-planned edible schoolyard can supply a significant
portion of a school's daily food needs. By cultivating a garden together,
children learn vital skills in team work, problem solving, creative planning,
and sustainable living. Garden-based classes are a great way to complement
classroom education in many subjects including biology, botany, ecology,
mathematics, nutrition, art, and writing. Most important, gardening is fun for
kids! School gardens can dramatically enliven the learning process by giving
students the ability to connect in a very experiential and hands-on way with
the incredible living world unfolding all around them. For all of these reasons
and many more, let's support the vision for a garden growing at every school in
Kentucky! Best Practices in School Gardens School
teachers, staff, students, volunteers and administrators across Kentucky are
interested in establishing and sustaining instructional gardens. In April and
June of 2009 two Gardening with Class: School Garden Workshops were held in
Lexington that attracted 200+ teachers,
parents and staff excited about establishing a school garden on their campus. Out
of this workshop 40+ gardens were developed. Also in 2009 we organized the Kentucky School Gardens Network and
the Bluegrass School and
Community Garden Network to support, advocate for and facilitate school
gardens efforts in Kentucky. During this
workshop we will highlight the unique contributions of a variety of school
garden programs to provide a landscape of ideas you can adapt to your school
setting. Each school garden story will provide a glimpse into the ways garden
programs can be structured and the myriad rich opportunities they offer. From
them, we will see how instructional gardens support:
Schedule for Bluegrass Food Security
Summit 8:00 Registration GENERAL SESSION WITH PARTICIPANTS in
all 4 Tracks PART I: THE BIG PICTURE 8:40 Looking at Kentucky’s Food
Security
9:40 Participant Mini-Visioning for
Kentucky’s Food Security Developing a Vision for Kentucky’s
Food System – what would be visionary yet realistic goals for enhancing
Kentucky’s food system security in the next 10 years? 10:00 Break Break out in 4 tracks Friday
March 19, 2010 School Garden Workshop Seeker
Room 10:15 KY Green and Healthy
Schools- Integrating School Gardens Carolyn Gilles, UK Tracy Farmer
Institute, Green and Healthy Schools Coordinator
10:45 School Gardens...Updates, Best
Practices from the Field
11:25 am School Gardens and CORE
Curriculum
12:30
Lunch
1:15 Reconvene in Seeker Room and participants will walk across
the street to Pete Clausing’s House 1891 Bellefonte,to observe natural and
learning landscaping 1:30 School gardens and CORE Curriculum continued –
2:15 School and
Community Support for School gardens
2:50 Worm Composting Hands-on
approach
3:30 Group discussion: building support within the school system, from the
community, local and national grant resources. What local and state policies
need to be created to support a garden in every school ? 4:00 Wrap up of Summit rejoin
all four(4) track groups in Chalice Room 4:30 Adjourn Purpose of the Workshop
Who should
attend? This
workshop is designed as a professional development activity for K-12 teachers. School staff, parents, volunteers
and administrators will also find the workshop a valuable experience for
supporting your school garden initiative. We invite everyone who wants to make
a difference and work to create A Garden
at Every School in Kentucky! Professional development certificates will be
available at the workshop conclusion. Meals Included in the cost of the
registration are two—dinner on Thursday and lunch on Friday. The meals will
also include as much locally produced food as possible. Feel free to bring your own bowl/plate and utensils for dinner/lunch. Sponsors Kentucky Green and Healthy Schools Initiative, UK Tracy
Farmer Center, Sustainable Communities Network, Kentucky School Garden Network,
Bluegrass School and Community Garden Network, Terrapin Hill Farms, Central KY
Council for Peace and Justice, Bluegrass Partnership for a Green Community Questions/Information: call
(859)312-7024 or email embryjim@gmail.com Location The Bluegrass Food Security Summit will take place in Lexington, Kentucky at the Crestwood Christian Church at 1182 Bellefonte Drive located off of Albany Rd, between Tates Creek and Nicholasville Rds. , across the street from Glendover Elementary School. Workshops Tracks click each track for details: 1)Food Security: Regional Approach and Food Policy Council, 2)Food Security: Youth Engagement; 3)Food Security: School Gardens-" A Garden At Every School in Kentucky"; 4 )Food Security: Faith Community and Food For Food Summit statement of purpose click here For Food Summit agenda click here Fees &
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