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organic school gardening teacher/coordinator (elementary, middle school)
P.O. Box 8014
Wilson, NC 27893
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We are teaching the students how to grow, preserve, and learn about where their food comes from: especially the value of organic food.
It has been proven repeatedly that disease, learning disabilities, disconnect disorder, malnutrition, and obesity are caused, at least in part, by the highly-processed school diets they're fed and whatever they're getting at home, if anything.
THIS GENERATION WILL BE THE FIRST IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND TO DIE AT A YOUNGER AGE THAN THEIR PARENTS.
It has also been proven that school gardening and project-based learning help kids learn and retain better, while virtually any subject can be taught in the garden. Students become"re-connected" with their food source, with each other, with nature, their natural curiosity is stimulated, and the values of patience, nurturing, work-ethic, and pride are learned through gardening. Besides, kids NEED to get dirty: this stimulates the good bacteria in their bodies (that's why little ones like to eat dirt...)
Once this pilot project is well under-way, we hope to form a 501(c)(3) corporation, to put a teacher and an organic, sustainable garden/greenhouse in every kindergarten, day-care, charter school, after-school, public and private school for every elementary and middle-school child that we can reach.
The current plan is to use veterans, who have great access to training and programs in organics, ag, alternative energy, etc. as coordinators/instructors. Vets are just as disconnected from society as the kids are, wondering what to do with themselves, often for years, after they get out. Studies and stats show that working with their hands, in ag and alternative energy is a highly positive force for them; often completely turning their lives around. In our project, vets would be forced to work with the schools, students, volunteers, donors, and community; as well as leading the kids in a positive direction and building a sustainable system that produces high-quality food for many people in a small amount of space.
This is a huge undertaking: much of what we are doing is cutting-edge and we are ALL learning as we go. At any rate, everything we do is positive AND we (the team, kids, school, donors, volunteers, and community) are getting in on the ground-floor of several fields that are highly-projected to be in demand for the next 15 years, at the very least.
Please check out our websites: BuildTheNursery.weebly.com and TheSpotFunGarden.weebly.com, as well as Instagram, Twitter, G+ and FB. You may email us @ BuldTheNursery@gmail.com.
Amanda Brown, Director
A small, but growing, team of us are in our pilot project: installing an organic garden and a high-tech greenhouse with alternative energy in an after-school project-based learning program for 225 at-risk youth. (Our school is open all day through the summer.)We are teaching the students how to grow, preserve, and learn about where their food comes from: especially the value of organic food.
It has been proven repeatedly that disease, learning disabilities, disconnect disorder, malnutrition, and obesity are caused, at least in part, by the highly-processed school diets they're fed and whatever they're getting at home, if anything.
THIS GENERATION WILL BE THE FIRST IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND TO DIE AT A YOUNGER AGE THAN THEIR PARENTS.
It has also been proven that school gardening and project-based learning help kids learn and retain better, while virtually any subject can be taught in the garden. Students become"re-connected" with their food source, with each other, with nature, their natural curiosity is stimulated, and the values of patience, nurturing, work-ethic, and pride are learned through gardening. Besides, kids NEED to get dirty: this stimulates the good bacteria in their bodies (that's why little ones like to eat dirt...)
Once this pilot project is well under-way, we hope to form a 501(c)(3) corporation, to put a teacher and an organic, sustainable garden/greenhouse in every kindergarten, day-care, charter school, after-school, public and private school for every elementary and middle-school child that we can reach.
The current plan is to use veterans, who have great access to training and programs in organics, ag, alternative energy, etc. as coordinators/instructors. Vets are just as disconnected from society as the kids are, wondering what to do with themselves, often for years, after they get out. Studies and stats show that working with their hands, in ag and alternative energy is a highly positive force for them; often completely turning their lives around. In our project, vets would be forced to work with the schools, students, volunteers, donors, and community; as well as leading the kids in a positive direction and building a sustainable system that produces high-quality food for many people in a small amount of space.
This is a huge undertaking: much of what we are doing is cutting-edge and we are ALL learning as we go. At any rate, everything we do is positive AND we (the team, kids, school, donors, volunteers, and community) are getting in on the ground-floor of several fields that are highly-projected to be in demand for the next 15 years, at the very least.
Please check out our websites: BuildTheNursery.weebly.com and TheSpotFunGarden.weebly.com, as well as Instagram, Twitter, G+ and FB. You may email us @ BuldTheNursery@gmail.com.
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organic school gardening teacher/coordinator (elementary, middle school) is a Health and Diet Food office located in Wilson, NC.
Please call Amanda Brown, Director at (512) 962-2536 to schedule an appointment in Wilson, NC or get more information. Additional Services organic gardening, school gardening, project-based learning, sustainable agriculture, aquaponics, vertiponics, alternative energy, greenhouse tech, grower, nurseryman
Please call Amanda Brown, Director at (512) 962-2536 to schedule an appointment in Wilson, NC or get more information. Additional Services organic gardening, school gardening, project-based learning, sustainable agriculture, aquaponics, vertiponics, alternative energy, greenhouse tech, grower, nurseryman
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