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Gardening with ChildrenJessica Sparks - Mussulin, Program Coordinator
Brittany Wager, Program Coordinator
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asapconnections.org
Our mission is to help local farms thrive, link farmers to markets and supporters, and build healthy communities
through connections to local food.
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ASAP’s Approach
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Local Food
Campaign
• Makes connections• Drives demand• Builds capacity• Provides resources
Growing Minds
• Builds community• Provides experiences• Creates resources• Trains
Local Food
Research
• Determines indicators• Studies change• Conducts feasibility
studies• Consults
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Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Decline
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Why is Farm to Preschool important to solving the problem?
• Dramatic increases in obesity among preschoolers
• Children consume as much as 80% of daily nutrients in childcare
• Early patterns are a determinant of later eating/physical activity habits
• This is when they are learning how to eat!
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Goals of Nutrition in Early Childhood
• Form positive attitudes about food and eating
• Learn to accept a wide variety of foods
• Establish healthful eating habits early in life
• Learn to share and socialize at mealtime
Nitzke S, Riley D, Ramminger A, Jacobs G. (2010) Rethinking Nutrition: Connecting Science and Practice in Early Childhood Settings.
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Experience Shapes Attitudes and Behavior
Our job: Provide positive, dynamic experiences around local, healthy food
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• Ourselves• Nutrition staff• Parents• Community members
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Step One: Change Our Expectations
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What can we do?
• Offer healthy choices• Creative positive food
environments • Model positive behavior• Invite participation: Create
opportunities to involve children and educate families
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Ask children about themselves and tell them
about yourself too!
• Do you have a memory of cooking as a child?
• Did you visit or live on a farm as a child? What was it like?
• What vegetable do you eat most often and how do you prepare it?
• What do you want to learn about local food and farms?
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• Gain confidence in your ability to garden with your children
• Leave with ideas for projects you can implement in your classroom right away!
Goals for today:
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• General gardening info
• Gardening and cooking connections
• Cooking demo
• Move out to garden
• Garden activities and exploration
• Cooking activity
• Some of our favorite books
• Wrap up and questions
Agenda for today:
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Gardening How-To
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Gardening How-To Goals• Give you an outline of
how to start gardening with your children
• Give you tools to make gardening part of what you are already teaching and not just “another thing to do”
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How many of you….
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What if…
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Goals of gardening• Create positive
experiences in outdoor learning environments
• Create a place where children can explore safely without adults having to say “no” and “don’t”
• Explore food through hands-on experiences (children will eat what they grow!)
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Modeling is keyCreate a garden where adults and children can learn together!
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1. Choose a garden site
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2. Choose a type of gardenIn the groundPros: • cost
Cons: • What was
there before? • Weeding • Soil
amendments
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Raised BedsPros:• What was
there before? • Weeding • You choose the
soil
Cons: • Cost
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Container GardensPros:• What was there
before? • Weeding • You choose the
soilCons: • Cost
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Designing With Kids in Mind• height• arm length• comfort
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3. Plant something!• Perennials vs. Annuals
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3. Plant something!• Perennials vs. Annuals
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3. Plant something!• Seeds vs. Plant Starts
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4. You have a garden! Now What?
Caring for the garden
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4. You have a garden! Now What?
Harvest!
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Garden Routines
• Watering (Daily)• Weeding (Weekly)• Harvesting (Several times
weekly)• Observation (Daily)• Planting (Several times monthly)
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4. You have a garden! Now What?
Integrating into the Classroom
• Integrating it into what you already do, not making it “one more thing”
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• Daily or weekly garden routines• Garden songs• Guided explorations• Seasonal Activities• Crafts• Children’s literature• Garden stations in the classroom• Use Growing Minds lesson plans
Ideas for classroom integration
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Other Garden Features
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Cooking with ingredients from the garden
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Start with a taste!
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Cooking with ingredients from the garden
• Let the children cook (or assemble) themselves.• Demonstrate cooking a dish in front of your class.
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Considerations in Choosing a Recipe
• Recipe promotes healthy food choices
• Hands-on skills are age/developmentally appropriate
• Access to needed appliances and adequate supervision
• Recipe features food from the garden or local farms
• Affordable for all families
• Individual dish
• Can be completed within 15-20 minutes.
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Developmentally Appropriate
Two-year-olds: learning to use large muscles in their arms• Scrubbing veggies and fruits• Breaking bread into pieces• Tearing lettuce and salad greens
Three-year-olds: learning to use their hands• Pouring liquids into batter• Spreading butters • Kneading dough
Four and five-year-olds: learning to control small muscles in fingers• Peeling fruits and vegetables• Juicing oranges, lemons, limes
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Recipes for Young Children to Cook
• Open faced sandwiches
• Salads
• Salsa
• Veggies and fruit with different dips or sauces
• Food sculptures (insects, people, etc.)
• Wraps
• Fruit Parfaits
No Heat Needed
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Can be changed according to local
ingredients• Salsa (Strawberry salsa in May, Peach salsa in August,
Tomato salsa in September, Cucumber in October)
• Parfaits (Strawberry in May, Berry in June/July, Peach in August, Pear in September, Apple in October-February)
• Garden plot crackers (any vegetables can be used!)
• Quesadillas (Spinach, Swiss chard or kale in December-June; Tomatoes-peppers in July-September; cabbage/apple October-November)
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Connecting to Literature
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Keeping it Safe and Meeting Regulations
• If the sink has been used for other purposes other than food preparation, the sink should be cleaned and disinfected with 500-800 ppm bleach solution.
• Water should come from a designated kitchen or sink.• Ensure proper hand washing before and after handling food.• Clean, rinse, & sanitize all surfaces used for food prep and
eating.• Plan for each student to prepare their own individual serving.• Refrigerate cut vegetables immediately
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For more info on safety regulations . ..
• Call your local health department and/or your local sanitation/environmental health officer.
• Talk with your center director and/or licensing agent.
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Let’s Make Smoothies!
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• the book
• small bins or
boxes
• photographs
of vegetables
and fruits for
each bin
• paper bags
Let’s Go to Market!
Project Materials
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What other kinds of fruit trees, bushes, or plants could you make for your children to interact with?
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Vegetable and Garden Based Crafts
• Vegetable crownsBook: An Edible Alphabet
• What grows from a seed?Book: The Carrot Seed; Seeds, Seeds, Seeds
• Color sorting collages Book: Oliver’s Vegetables
• Veggie castlesBook: Scarlette Beane
• 3-D vegetablesBook: I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato!
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Let’s take a break!
Reconnect in the garden courtyard in 10 minutes.
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Let’s make garden plot crackers!
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Book show and tell
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Get Local Supplies
• Recipe cards
• Stickers
• Bookmarks
For teachers outside of NC, one month of Get Local recipe cards and stickers for 20 children, costs approximately $3.25.
People associated with a preschool in NC can get one class set of supplies for free each month.
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Farm to Preschool lesson plans, activities, recipes, children’s books and more!
Growing Minds Farm to School/Preschool website: www.growing-minds.org
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Great Resources for Farm to School
• growing-minds.org• farmtoschool.org• farmtopreschool.org• farmtoschoolmonth.org• georgiaorganics.org• kidsgardening.org• and many more!
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