Powerful storytelling and advocacy to bring systematic change, sustainability, inclusion and diversity 24th Street Elementary. Thank you Big Sunday Garden School LA Endeavor Impact 🫶🏽💜LD Central-ARCHIVE Alberto M. Carvalho Los Angeles Unified Manual Arts/Vermont Square CoS Dr. Sandra Hernandez George McKenna Los Angeles Unified Division of Instruction

Thank you Garden School LA and all partnerships for your support in making @24thstelementary a place where children and the community can enjoy a green sustainable space. Alberto M. Carvalho Los Angeles Unified Manual Arts/Vermont Square CoS LD Central-ARCHIVE Dr. Sandra Hernandez George McKenna Los Angeles Unified Division of Instruction Angel City FC

Welcome to 24th Street Elem. Ms. Laura Garden Teacher. We are super excited for the 2nd week of school. Our students will continue learning about growing plants, cooking and composting. Alberto M. Carvalho Manual Arts/Vermont Square CoS George McKenna Garden School LA Angel City FC Sprouts Los Angeles Unified

Founded in 1969 New Communities in Albany, GA is widely recognized as the original model for Community Land Trusts (CLTs) in the US. CLTs help preserve affordable housing & green spaces & offer us a powerful tool to combat rising rents & displacement in our cities

Approaching evaluation with a foundation of equity is a vital component for shifting power for a racially just #foodsystem . Join our panel discussion on Sept. 9 to hear from 4 experts about creating racial equity-centered evaluation practices → us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

GSF Executive Director Kathleen Johnson talks about her passion for school gardens and California natives over at The Kitchn

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Healthy habits for the future generation 🥕🌱

Jonathan Dos Santos and Da Boy joined Garden School LA and Herbalife to bring an edible garden to a local elementary school 🎒🙌

💚these tips about teaching kids about healthy eating without shaming. Our fav tip? Cooking with yr kids to expose them to fruits & veggies. As we know from GSF's cooking classes, kids learn so much about healthy eating by cooking their own meals 🥦🍅🥑
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This is how we feel when we come into the garden after a few days away too!! 😍😍 #schoolgardens #gardenlife

Peep our 3 sisters garden bed at Jackson. 4th graders learn all about indigenous planting methods. This one focuses on using all planes of the garden bed. In October we we'll make a 3 Sisters Warm Barley Salad to help this lesson fully hit home 😋

Our Cafeteria to Compost Program at 24th Street is still going strong in its second year, diverting hundreds of pounds of food waste month. Watch this video to learn more about this incredible program:
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Today we're grateful for GIANT piles of mulch that need to be dispersed around campus. It gives our students a productive way to burn off some of the pre-winter break energy that we know & love so much. Plus, they LOVE digging in & getting their hands (& feet & arms & legs) dirty

Innovative programs like our own Cafeteria to Compost are crucial to reducing the overall impact of food waste on our environment. As this article notes, 'Food waste and loss has a huge carbon footprint: 3.3 billion tons of carbon equivalent.' Read more: nyti.ms/2C9sNuk

Did you know cooking helps kids form healthy relationships with food? As this article notes, one of the best ways to encourage kids to eat widely is 'planning meals, grocery shopping, cooking and sitting down to share a meal together.” tgam.ca/2HMsKH5

School gardens offer students hope by offering more control & agency: 'Students feel there are pressing global environmental problems...they don’t know what they can do about it. Campus gardens provide an outlet for their broader environmental concern.' wapo.st/2Skg2EA

Here’s looking at you, Monday.

Want to give back to your community but not sure where to start? Tomorrow is #givingtuesday - a global day of giving back. Join us in showing your support of school gardens by donating to @gardenschoolfoundation tomorrow. Here’s how to get involved: bit.ly/2FDXpdp

Want to learn more about our gardens? Take a tour of our 24th Street garden & peep our Compost to Cafeteria program, which diverts hundreds of pounds of food waste from lunch to our garden beds 😍 #digin #schoolgarden #compost

I set out to learn why the state that feeds the whole country has the largest number of food insecure people in the US — the more I dug, the more complicated it got, but here it is: globalcitizen.org/en/content/foo…

Photos by Kayla Reefer;Photo Editing by Olivia Kestin ;Video by Lamar Salter