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Teaching Gardens: Using Permaculture to Teach Kids Practical Lessons

Submitted by Kevin Hansen on December 3, 2011 - 10:18

A wonderful article describing organic permaculture teaching gardens used to help teach children via experiential means the lessons they need - in a practical garden setting:

Sowing the Seeds of Food Security

By FIONA MACKAY
Published: New York Times - November 27, 2011

CAPE TOWN — At primary schools in South Africa’s impoverished Cape Flats area, teachers are using organic vegetable gardens to help children learn science, geography and economics — and to unlearn hunger.

Schools Environmental Education and Development (SEED) is a nonprofit based in Cape Town that creates learning gardens as part of their Organic Classroom Program, in partnerships with schools in South Africa’s poorest communities.

Founded in 2002, SEED trains teachers to design, plant and nurture a garden according to permaculture principles, which encourage a sustainable approach to agriculture modeled on the ecosystem.

Jumping Joyous Urban Jumble: Judy Wicks and Building a Local Living Economy

Jul 18 2006
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Judy Wicks, owner of the White Dog Café in Philadelphia, shares the origins of her incredible business success. Judy has created a vibrant restaurant business committed to organic-only food, fair trade in all products, humanely-raised animals, living wages for her employees, and a host of other leading-edge practices.

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Urban Gardening: Food, Education and Community with Kamau Ngom

Oct 07 2005
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Kamau Ngom tells of how their community garden was so exciting for children - a gem in the city of Wilmington, Delaware that happened because people believed that a garden was possible.

Now, it provides not only good food, but an organizing focus for the community, and a chance for kids to learn what really matters:

Learn for yourself, and never give up your dreams.

Produced by: Pierre Terre, 1/7/2006
Language: English
Run Time: 1 min. 0 sec.
Story Level 1 = Intended for all children or adults

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