Finding ways to preserve the food we grow is always on our minds, and I naturally gravitate towards the curiosity that comes with it. For some time, it was just an idea of mine to share food preservation techniques  with the students here at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, which I was fortunately able to bring into reality for our after school programming. From learning...

Over the last several months we have piloted a new training program consisting of monthly virtual workshops covering topics such as school garden management, connecting edible education to ...

“In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.”

― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

We often call on quotes and harvesting practices shared in this beloved book written by Robin Wall Kimmerer, an Indigenous woman and enrolled member of the...

It was a year in the making. Eri Suzuki, a board member of Edible Schoolyard Japan, a counterpart organization of ours, reached out to our Executive Director, Ashley Rouse, proposing that our two programs hold a collaborative, five-day exchange with one another for the purpose of building a stronger bond between our educators and exchanging cultural experiences, practices, and...