Integrated Programming with Community Gardens
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The document discusses the integration of community gardens in Gaston County, NC, as a method to enhance various educational programs within cooperative extension, such as agriculture and nutrition. It details the benefits of community gardens in promoting healthy lifestyles, experiential learning, and skills development among youth while also addressing local food movements and sustainable agriculture. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of collaboration among agents to maximize community impact and offers resources for starting similar initiatives.
Integrated Programming with Community Gardens
- 1. Integrated ProgrammingCommunity GardensIn Gaston County NC
- 2. Integrated ProgrammingIssues-based programs that break the barriers between different program areas and agentsWe’ve always worked together, but Integrated Programming is intentional and recordedIntended to magnify impacts
- 3. BenefitsThis makes what you’ve always done look even betterWorking with other agents isn’t a new concept, but the name makes it sound impressive, intentional and impactfulMeasurable impacts mean better reports and potential funding
- 4. FactsCombines the strengths of different colleagues in different program areasAgricultureNatural ResourcesFamily and Consumer Sciences4-H and Youth DevelopmentCommunity Resource Development
- 5. ExamplesLocal Food MovementsMilitary Base Programs4-H Summer CampsSenior ProgrammingCommunity Gardens
- 6. My Point of ViewCommunity Gardens are a great way to integrate diverse program areas and agents within Cooperative Extension to impact our community
- 7. Gaston Community Gardens – Harvesting Healthy YouthGastonCommunityGardensPromoting healthy lifestyles through vegetable gardening and nutrition education
- 8. Gaston Community Gardens – Harvesting Healthy YouthAgricultural basicsPreventing youth obesityPromoting healthy lifestylesCharacter buildingExperiential learning
- 9. Support local, sustainable agriculture.Youth are learning about:sustainable agriculture practicesenvironmental responsibilitytaste and quality of locally grown produceGaston Community Gardens – Harvesting Healthy Youth
- 10. Gaston Community Gardens – Harvesting Healthy YouthCreate an outdoor classroom.Many teachable moments occur in the garden: MathScienceBiologyCharacter building
- 11. Gaston Community Gardens – Harvesting Healthy YouthHorticultureGarden Skills
- 12. Harvest how to
- 13. Stages of growth and developmentGaston Community Gardens – Harvesting Healthy Youth4-H and EFNEPFood safetyNutrition educationNew foods4-H Expanded Food & Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)
- 14. Gaston Community Gardens – Harvesting Healthy YouthVolunteersMaster Gardeners
- 17. Food systemsGaston Community GardensImpacts of spring 2009150 students in 9 classes in schools throughout the county15 weekly class and garden lessonsKASA changes in horticulture skills, food and food system knowledge, nutrition aspirations
- 18. Integrated ProgrammingBrought together almost every agent in our local staffIs a developing concept in our office and across the stateLooking for more opportunities locallyStatewide, there are several great examples
- 19. Resources to Get StartedYour staff membersOnlinewww.communitygarden.ncsu.eduhttp://www.ces.ncsu.edu/4hplantandsoils/www.bostonnatural.orghttp://celosangeles.ucdavis.edu/garden/http://www.greenguerillas.org/
- 21. Just Remember…Plants have all the anthers!
- 22. Gaston Community Gardens – Harvesting Healthy YouthThings We LearnedSite visitInteragency agreementIn-kind donations
- 23. Gaston Community Gardens – Harvesting Healthy YouthThings We LearnedWatering delicate plants is an essential part of gardening activities.
- 24. Gaston Community Gardens – Harvesting Healthy YouthThings We LearnedThis is a vegetable garden, but it is also a flower garden and a home for bugs and other creatures
- 25. Gaston Community Gardens – Harvesting Healthy YouthThings We LearnedProper harvesting techniques are important to teach!
- 26. Go out and gardenMark Blevinsmark_blevins@ncsu.edu
Editor's Notes
- #2: I’d like to influence you to give integrated programming a chance and give one example of how it worked for us in Gaston County NC
- #3: Yesterday’s speaker talked about some of the challenges to Land Grants in the Future, one is getting everyone on the same page and working in the same direction. He specifically mentioned integrated programming, though from his standpoint of getting researchers working with Extension more.The integrated programming I’m talking about are…You may have heard the terms “tear down the silos” or “stop using different buckets”The whole synergy thing (that may be copyrighted)
- #11: Julie, pictured here with a teacher to her right and a master gardener to her left does a great job of integrating other life skills into the programSpacing Transplants teaches mathScience and Biology are everywhereJohnny, let’s not swing that tomato stake at others, thank you.Delayed gratification, patience, reaping what you sow, etc.
- #12: Stages…This is a seed, This is a plant, This is a flower, This is a vegetable,
- #13: Some of the produce students tried for the first time included eggplant, squash, and even watermelon!
- #14: Lots of fun activitiesPaper potsHealthy fruit parfaits (pictured)Peanut PlantsVegetable PizzasPropagation ActivitiesSo much more
- #15: February’s not so great in the garden, so we plant sugar peas and stay inside for a few weeks learning about nutrition, wellness and do some inside plant experimentsKnowledge, Aspirations, Skills and Abilities
- #16: A community garden in Greensboro grew about 15 tons of food and gave away at least 10% of that throughout the city.Community development programs help revitalize neighborhoods and the youth, families and resources within
- #17: My challenge to you is to work with your co-workers when you return. We are all doing the same thing with different clients and information. Let’s identify some big issues and address them together. Community Gardens are just one way to do this. Make great stuff happen in your own area and share it at meetings like this one.Here are some resources if you’re here just to know how to start a community gardenNC State’s new Community Garden site with lots of resourcesThis includes pre-made curriculum packages including an entire plan that follows 3rd grade standardsBoston Natural Areas NetworkLos Angeles County Cooperative Extension has a great program to teach people how to grow and prepare their foodGreen Guerrillas is a New York program to get gardens growing and people involved in their communityLet’s look at the first one…
- #21: The first few times, we had the schools provide whatever water nozzle they had available, but we specified on future sites because the students would either do a quick and completely ineffective mist or forcefully erode an entire row of seed.They’ll spray their classmates in a heartbeat so water breakers help with character building, too.
- #22: Welcome to your vegetable garden today.But this is a flower garden Ms Flowers.Alright, well fruits and vegetables start off as flowers…botany lesson botany lesson blah blahblah
- #23: Right, we are harvesting peppers today, but we need ones that we can use a fork with, not just a toothpick