Ken (& All )-

 

This was a suggestion that we use the upcoming second annual mid-winterCAC Gardens & allied groups & related interests co-sponsored “Grow Together Conference” as a venue with one track of working sessions devoted to school and youth gardening. This Conference is still in the very early preliminary planning stage of the process and other than knowing we would like it to take place in late February or early March is not yet defined.

 

If anyone would like to be part of the school and/or youth planning tracks please let me know and send along some best dates/times/locations and I will arrange meeting together. Defining the school and youth garden track(s?) and related community interface with those that care is definitely the way we want to go. Last year we had a mix of presentations and tracks with youth gardening as one track. Maybe this year we could focus more on the school approaches and what ever else would be helpful (like policy/ start-up kits/ summer programming/ your ideas?). Or we may want to do this work in another manner separately or some combination of the two. I expect that there will likely be a good number of like minded folks at the Conference that can help in these efforts.

 

Sharon Lezberg, a longtime local activist in matters of local food and community gardens (and a member of the City Gardens Committee) is very interested in moving towards a more comprehensive school gardens policy approach and linking various efforts such as Farm to School to school gardens but she is busy until mid December on another project.

 

Let me know what you think!

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From: communityfoodandgardennetwork@yahoogroups.com [mailto:communityfoodandgardennetwork@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of ken swift
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 9:16 PM
To: communityfoodandgardennetwork@yahoogroups.com
Cc: lferin@mailbag.com; jreithrozell@wisc.edu; Janet Parker; Ben Sommers; Chris Brockel
Subject: Re: [cfgn] Winter gardening, gardening in South Africa and here

 

How will we know when planning for  this event takes place?

 

Ken Swift 

First Grade Teacher

Lapham School

1045 E. Dayton St.

Madison, WI 53703

608-204-4178

 

On Nov 27, 2006, at 8:08 AM, susanboldt@slowfoodwisconsin.org wrote:

Hello,
Slow Food Madison, here. We certainly want to do get together, share some local as well as national and international initiatives that are underway.

Looking forward to great growing, eating and enjoying our veggies in 2007!!! Susan Boldt
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> From: "Joe Mathers" <joem@cacscw.org>
> Date: 2006/11/27 Mon AM 01:10:45 GMT
> To: <communityfoodandgardennetwork@yahoogroups.com>
> CC: "Janet Parker" <janetp@cacscw.org>, "Ben Sommers" <bens@cacscw.org>,
> "Chris Brockel" <chrisb@cacscw.org>
> Subject: RE: [cfgn] Winter gardening, gardening in South Africa and here
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> Rick-
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> It sounds good. There is some interest from members of the City Garden Committee in encouraging school gardening, too.
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> We may likely be able to incorporate it as a track at the still being scheduled (late February/early March  XX) second Winter Garden Gathering/Training/Sharing if that meets the needs of the people interested and they are agreeable.
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> Last year we had a good turnout, lots of enthusiasm, great workshops, good sharing (and great food!). I can help with planning and such if needed.
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> From: communityfoodandgardennetwork@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Brooks, Richard
> Sent: Fri 11/24/2006 11:30 AM
> To: communityfoodandgardennetwork@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [cfgn] Winter gardening, gardening in South Africa and here
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> I have just had a request from Liza Lightfoot of Avant Landscaping for advice on how to keep a school gardening program going in South Africa, and suspect that we all have similar challenges. Would you be interested in spending, say, a half day getting together to re-energize, get ready for next spring and think about how we can keep gardening momentum going here?
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> To keep you stimulated, here's a resource that might be useful right now.
> http://www.citizenschools.org/images/wowphotos/wintergardening.pdf <http://www.citizenschools.org/images/wowphotos/wintergardening.pdf>
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> Let's keep nurturing the seeds of learning and growth, so to speak...
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> Please call or email me if you'd like to pursue any of this.
> Rick
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> Richard Brooks
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