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  • Tuesday, May 21, 2013 | Filed under Engineering , Environmental Stewardship , School Garden Installation , Community

     

    They are smiling because the water conserving drip system has been engineered and installed at Burton Hill Elementary School in Fort Worth, TX on Friday, May 10 with the most expert guidance and assistance from them; and they are Debbie Key and Bill Vandever, Tarrant County Master Gardeners extraordinaire. They’re happy that 200 + folks from the community at large, specifically volunteers from Mercedes Benz Corporation, parents, teachers and students have completed another REAL School Garden for instructing and facilitating knowledge through nature in context with the real world.

    People like these folks (Debbie and Bill) volunteer their time ...

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  • Tuesday, February 19, 2013 | Filed under Environmental Stewardship , Community , Family Activities , Science

    Most people probably remember learning about butterflies early in their elementary careers. I remember lessons about butterfly metamorphosis and our teacher purchasing a butterfly habitat for the classroom, but there is one mystery about butterflies that still fascinates students, researchers, and teachers through the years. The Monarch Migration takes place every year during the spring and fall when millions of monarch butterflies make their way from Canada to Mexico and back again. This magnificent spectacle has caught the eye of many onlookers, and recently of IMAX filmmakers.

     

    Flight of the Butterflies is a compelling and awe-inspiring 3D film that ...

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  • Tuesday, January 29, 2013 | Filed under Environmental Stewardship , Community


    I grew up in the Great Basin, where California, Oregon, and Nevada might as well be the same place, on 318 acres of organic pastures that were seasonally filled with either munching dairy heifers or four feet of snow. On our “small” working pasture ranch in Oregon, my family grows organic grass for hay and to run organic cattle in the summer months. I grew up in the cowboy way of life. It’s still strange to describe my childhood and my lifestyle and then realize that it’s a concept that is completely foreign to most people. Many of them stare ...

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  • Wednesday, January 09, 2013 | Filed under Environmental Stewardship , Community , Family Activities

    It may be January, but we're ready to get growing! Check out these 5 projects to prep for springtime, in the garden or inside!

    1) If you're bundled up inside with no interest in venturing out to garden just yet, why not make yourself an indoor tabletop water garden? Helpful instructions and tips from Megan of radmegan: in words and pictures to get this project underway:

     

    2) Upcycle those broken tools in the shed and revamp them into a trellis for climbing vines:

     Photo credit: Better Homes and Gardens

    3) Do the dirty work of prepping your soil for spring. ...

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  • Tuesday, December 04, 2012 | Filed under Environmental Stewardship , Community

    What do REAL School Gardens, a New York City juice bar, a fisherman, and a mountain climber have in common? What may sound like the beginning of a bad joke is actually an international non-profit agency giving millions every year in the name of the environment. RSG recently received funding through 1% For The Planet, an organization with the mission to “build and support an alliance of businesses financially committed to creating a healthy planet.”

    By encouraging businesses to donate 1% of their sales to environmental non-profits, 1% For the Planet not only gets businesses to take a more ...

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  • Tuesday, October 16, 2012 | Filed under Environmental Stewardship , Health and Nutrition , Science

     

     

     

     

    Walking through an elementary school I found the following quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson framed and hanging in the school hall “A weed is a plant whose virtue has not yet been discovered”. This means that of all the tools, foods, medicines and fibers that have been discovered from the world of plants called weeds, there are still new plants and new uses of the plants to discover.

    The student pictured above has samples of two weeds pulled from the school garden that were plants used historically as a flavoring, a spice and an edible food. ...

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  • Tuesday, September 25, 2012 | Filed under Environmental Stewardship , Student Behavior , Health and Nutrition , Family Activities

     

    I had an epiphany when an acquaintance described himself as the “green sheep” of his family.  “Wow,” I thought,” that’s what I am!” 

    It wasn’t until they read an article recently published in Dallas Child magazine that my family seemed to finally understand what it is that REAL School Gardens does and why we do it.   They seemed to think I spend my days digging in dirt, trying to convince elementary students to eat their veggies.  Of course, the vegetables are an important part, but a small part, of our efforts to increase student engagement ...

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  • Tuesday, September 18, 2012 | Filed under Environmental Stewardship , Health and Nutrition , Art in the Garden , Community

    So you have a passion to garden but not a whole lot of money to invest in your own garden?  Never fear, you can still have your own garden even if you only have a shoestring budget to work with, by utilizing DIY (Do-It-Yourself) gardening projects.     

     

    Just do a simple internet search of “DIY gardening” and a plethora of websites, full of ideas for projects, big and small, will appear before you.  Even if you have the money to invest but are not sure where or how to start, with the DIY gardening projects, you can learn ...

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  • Tuesday, July 31, 2012 | Filed under Environmental Stewardship , Health and Nutrition , Instructional Aids

     

     

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    Noun: garbage - food that is discarded (as from a kitchen), food waste, refuse, scraps.

    And so it is that by cooking fresh produce in my kitchen (most often from the garden, less often from the market) I find there is an amount of less desirous plant parts that no one wishes to eat, unless of course as an example, you take a liking to sweet potato peel soup. There was a time that dish was actually served to me and that is when I discovered composting.

     

    The alchemy of composting whereby garbage from ...

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  • Thursday, May 31, 2012 | Filed under Environmental Stewardship , Health and Nutrition , Educators , Community , Social Studies , Science , Math , Smart Potatoes

    Kindergarten teacher, Lester Sipma, at George Clarke Elementary (Fort Worth, TX) has participated in the past two years of the Smart Potatoes Program.  He shared his experience this year with us below:    

     

    Participating in the Smart Potato program has impacted me, my students, our George C. Clarke staff, faculty and families in many ways. Some of the ways in which the program has impacted our campus were expected and others were wonderful surprises.

    I used the Smart Potato project as a platform to teach a variety of science lessons such as plant life cycles, soil types, problems and solutions to gardening, identifying insects, determining ...

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