Farms: Elementary School Farm Teaches Kids and Feeds Community
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to M.E. Cunningham Elementary School in Austin, Texas to share with you a organic community farm that is on the school property that not only teaches kids about real food as well as other curriculum in the garden. In this episode, John will give you a tour of the P.E.A.S. organic community farm and share with you some of the easiest edible plants you can grow in Austin, Texas with little upkeep. You will also discover several ways to eat more of your kale as well as how you can make pasta noodles out of zucchini. Next, you will learn how one of the teachers is teaching kids about pico de gallo and growing the plants so they can make their own. Besides growing food, you will learn about two more sustainable practices that the the PEAS farm has also integrated to teach the kids about resiliency. Finally, John will interview Lauren Maples, one of the founders and Executive Director of the PEAS Farm and learn why it is important to educate kids about where food comes from. You will also discover some hints and tips on how you can get your school growing a garden for the kids and community. Subscribe to GrowingYourGreens for more videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=growingyourgreens Follow John on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/growingyourgreens/ Watch over 1100 other GrowingYourGreens videos at: https://www.youtube.com/user/growingyourgreens/videos Help John buy a Farm and Get a Tee Shirt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ghgUmXvqBw Learn more about PEAS Farm at: http://www.peasfarm.org
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This video is terrible! He just talks and talks all the way through it and doesn't really talk about the school and how they grow the veggies!!
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Have a great day!
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This is so cool, it's certainly a positive step towards cultivating a higher awareness in our culture and creating a healthier future! A variation of this model that would be great to see is a situation where schools are producing as much food as possible onsite or locally for the children's lunches. If the scale of production was large enough, the school could even possibly sell produce at the local farmers market to raise funding for school maintenance, improvements, etc.
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Elementary schools down here south of Austin mostly do this also :P
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Awesome idea! Hope more school adapt this.
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we were plowing a 10,000 sq ft garden with a team of draft horses and this is the first year we are doing raised beds
Aging in place is a big reason why, we need to have systems in place as we reach 100 =) -
This is fabulous! Here in washington, I am currently involved in a non profit that brings organic gardening into the school ciriculum. We create gardens and hoop houses to help feed the community and raise awareness of the value of organic gardening. I would love to show you what we do if you are interested in traveling to the pacific northwest. I also homeschool my own kids where we have created a urban homestead on a third of an acre . Thank you so much for living your dream and helping to shift the paradigm to sustainability ! Your so appreciated
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John kholer your Awesome...The work that you do in providing educational videos I can't thank you enough...God bless you:')
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Hey John, is there a way to donate via patreon or something? would love to donate without having to buy a t shirt!
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Mr. Kohler, what is the best book you can recommend regarding gardening in growing your own food... Im currently living in Saudi Arabia... Starting to have interest in gardening and importance in growing your own food... thank you...
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Love your channel, love the school program in this episode. Anti-oxidants are a good thing, no question. But low anti-oxidant foods do not promote ageing and disease. Please be careful with the claims you make.
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Growing medical weed is the beat
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Texas and all states, STOP voting for or supporting millions of dollars going into building nonsensical stadiums for football and other sports when those millions of dollars can go to building on site school/community ORGANIC gardens so the children can eat that food at school and NOT HAVE TO PAY for school lunch, and also learn where food comes from. What kind of society are we perpetuating that puts millions of dollars into a football stadium instead of into healthy organic food for our children??
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one of your best videos. I wasn't aware of this project in Austin. Great to think that kids can be taught many important subjects in the public school system. Too often, we hear of the failures of high school public education in our Texas education system.
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How lovely to see a school leading by example, encouraging children to immerse themselves in the natural world, water, herbs, vegetables, creatures and compost. It is heartening to see edible gardens promoted as a focal point for communities. Thank you!
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did she promote common core?
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You are an inspiration. Not only specifically this exact video, but your whole channel is for me just a joy to watch and inspiring. Greetings from Holland
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Do you have a video on growing Rosemary? I have tried from store transplants a couple of times and it always seems to die. I don't know if I'm overwatering and have no clue what I'm doing. :P
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Thanks John. Love these projects. I do not have any children but will love to help out a school with their community garden. i'll have to look into that.
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nice video with great info.