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We’re partnering with schools across the country to sponsor gardens in schools. See kids bloom with pride as they care for, harvest, show off, prepare and enjoy nutritious delights they’ve grown themselves.
Post by Forest Oak Elementary in Garden Cassroom | November, 16
Seeds were planted by our kindergarten classes in June in the expanded garden. The garden has proven to be bountiful and the harvest has been served at the school veggie bar!
Post by Jennifer Donovan in Garden Cassroom , Parent Wisdom | October, 31
I (Jennifer) have enjoyed my association with the Hidden Valley Ranch Love Your Veggies program, and am excited to continue that relationship. I love their mission of encouraging parents and kids to eat more vegetables, and admire their work in …
Post by S.O.L.E. in Garden Cassroom | October, 7
Wow! What a difference a summer makes! Having planted their 'warm weather' seeds in June, Love Your Veggies school grant winner Union Pleasant shows off their summer garden in Buffalo, New York, including a few of the vegetables competing in our Great Veggie Adventure.
Post by admin in Expert Advice , Garden Cassroom , Parent Wisdom | June, 6
Get ready to show some blogger love. Our customized Love Your Veggies badge is now available for download. Don’t have a blog? Print it off as an “official” veggie lover badge to have fun with the kids.
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Post by Jean Marie Gunner in Garden Cassroom , Parent Wisdom | May, 23
After an hour in the morning helping sow and plant veggies for The Giving Garden's Great Veggie Adventure, our 4th grade students devoured a platter of fresh cut veggies. Without hesitation, they hungrily dipped asparagus spears, red pepper slices, broccoli florets, snap peas and baby carrots in Organic Hidden Valley Ranch. When kids are hungry they will eat veggies without hesitation! So put a plate of veggies in front of them and hold the cookies and other sugary snacks. See the videos here
Post by Forest Oak Elementary in Garden Cassroom | May, 9
Here at Forest Oak School in Newark , Del. our first graders have planted radishes, turnips, and lettuce. We have had lots of rain but could use a little more sunshine. Luckily, sunshine is on the way in the next few days. Changes are being made to the entire garden within the next few weeks. We are enlarging it and installing a garden shed and a fence. We are excited about all the changes and are looking forward to having our kindergarteners plant more vegetables in June, so that we can have a bountiful harvest at the end of the summer.
Post by Water Ford Elementary in Garden Cassroom | May, 2
Tracker, the New-Trition Train, is the WSDepot Café Mascot He is leading students on the right track to good nutrition and fitness in the Waterford School District.
At Waterford Village Elementary, Tracker is encouraging kids to get on board with healthy choices of fresh veggies from around the world and from their very own garden. The Tracker mural was painted around the “Fresh News” board where healthy information and garden observations will be posted weekly. Tracker will help take the students on weekly Veggie Adventures by offering taste tests of new and unusual veggies from Asparagus to Zucchini. Tracker is getting kids to toot their horns for good nutrition and fuel up for the ride of their lives!
Post by Tinsley Elementary in Garden Cassroom | April, 28
Wow! We are so excited to be apart of this Great Veggie Adventure with Hidden Valley and to represent Houston, Texas (aka “H-town”) for a myriad of reasons: H stands for Haute/Hot, Humid, and Happening!
H-town has the perfect climate culmination for year-round gardening. Even in the late summer under a sweltering heat wave, we can produce a ton of okra, sweet potatoes, squash, eggplants, melons, beans, peppers, and pumpkins and get a great jumpstart in spring, as March ushers in temperatures in the 70’s. When our Northern and Midwest friends are still under a blanket of snow and frozen ice, we are getting our gardening on! To date, we have eaten, bagged up, collected seeds, and composted our cold seasonal crops and are already experiencing buds of tiny tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers. We have cleared out our Veggie Adventure bed to cultivate some crazy, interesting veggies like lemon cucumbers, suyo long cucumbers, scalloped summer squash, Nodding onions, hyssop, and Echinacea flowers for teas. It’s going to be a year for the risk taking, and with trowels in hand, we’re up for exploration.
Every child at Tinsley Elementary gets a chance to garden, taste, and explore “Turtle Greens Garden” through their enrichment rotation on a weekly basis. We have seen an improvement in science as well as the consumption of fresh produce since we implemented our edible gardening program last year. The afterschool culinary arts/gardening Garden2Grub Club has been featured on the Cooking Channel for Hidden Valley® Ranch Salad Dressings and you can see that kids really “Dig Edible Education.” Check out our video posts for yourself and see how we’re growing healthy and happy kids here deep in the South. Time to get growing!
Peas & Carrots out!
Kellie Karavias
Culinary/Arts Gardening Educator
We visited a 6th grade class at Hamburg Middle School today -- wow -- were the students engaged and responsive in the healthy food conversation. We were invited in by their teacher to conduct a fun classroom tasting -- fresh made in the classroom white bean dip. The white bean dip along with Organic Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing and some ready-made from Wegmans Pico de Gallo Guacamole were served with a fresh assortment of veggies and Organic Blue Corn Chips. Three dips are better than one....Even their Principal joined in the delicious learning. View the Video...
Post by Theodore Judah Elementary in Garden Cassroom | April, 6
The Theodore Judah garden is alive and thriving, even through the recent downpours and surprisingly low temperatures for our climate. We have lettuce, sweet peas, broccoli, Kolhrabi and Chard. Although the kids have been munching on the lettuce and edible flowers, the hungriest critters in our garden right now are the insects. For the next couple of weeks we have enlisted a crew of Insect Scientists (made up of our student body) to explore and evaluate the insect population in our garden.
Of course our scientists will come prepared with field journals, magnifying glasses, tape measures and some helpful insect guides. We hope to determine which vegetables are most liked by our little friends. We also hope to figure out the ways in which they are benefitting our garden or if they are possibly eating a bit more than their share. Students are learning about the human body in science, so this will allow them an opportunity to compare the insect body to the human body. Maybe the nutrients we need are the same nutrients that the insects need? So off we go to evaluate if we have friend or foe borrowing space in our garden. We will keep you informed.
To act as the official farmers and taste testers, the Love Your Veggies™ grant program has tapped the assistance of five previous grant-winning schools. These schools have each demonstrated nutrition education success. Read More »
