Establishing community partners is one of the keys to creating a dynamic community program. This session explores ways to create programming with community partners whose mission and goals align with yours. Participants learn tips and strategies for how to choose the right partners and build a stronger, more unified community.

• View the slide deck here.
• Learn more about Edible Schoolyard Stockton here.

In this session, participants learn approaches and strategies for involving families in edible education. Chef teachers Griselda Cooney and Patricia Mok share an overview of ESYP's family engagement programming and provide a cooking class demonstration based on our Family Nights Out events.

• View the slide deck here.
• View the fried rice lesson and recipe here.
• View the padlet here.
• View the knife safety lesson here.
• View the Family Nights In Digital Cookbook here.

While applying the lifelong learning skill of reflection, participants will contemplate the undeniable power of food to indelibly connect us to a person, place, or time. This session, led by Senior Chef Teacher Esther Cook, is for anyone interested in examining the role food plays in their life.

• View the Food Memories lesson plan here.

This session explores a new resource titled Student Engagement in Edible Education: A Workbook for Teachers. In this training, participants learn about the three pillars of student engagement and explore resources from the workbook.

• View the slide deck here.
• View the Student Engagement Workbook.
• View the student engagement scenario padlet here.

This fundraising session dives into the structure and tactics of the donor giving cycle, primarily focusing on individual giving and corporate partnership strategies. The workshop provides participants with an opportunity and inspiration to begin formulating their own donor engagement plan. 

• View the slide deck here.
• Visit the School Garden Support Organization for additional fundraising resources.

This session explores the systems and routines of the Edible Schoolyard kitchen classroom. Participants are led through a virtual tour of our kitchen classroom and then reflect on how their own cooking program can promote accessibility, inclusivity, and safety.

• View the slide deck here.
• View the Padlet here.
• View our "No Kitchen? No Problem!" resource here.
• View our kitchen reflection cards here.

In this session, participants gain insight into the physical space and garden infrastructure of the ESY garden. Participants are guided through a photo journey that showcases key areas of the ESY garden and how we use these with students. Participants are invited to consider how the core values behind the ESY garden can inform their own work.

• View the slide deck here.
• View the Padlet here.

In this session, Stone Barns Center Director of Agroecology Jack Algiere shares an overview of regenerative farming practices that educators can apply in their school gardens.

Visit the Stone Barns Center’s website at https://www.stonebarnscenter.org/

Books and authors that Jack recommends include:

• “New Organic Grower” by Eliot Coleman
• “Teeming with Microbes” by Jeff Lowenfels
• “Regeneration” by Paul Hawkins
• “Building soil for better crops” Fred Magdoff and Harold Van Es
• Alan Chadwick and the UCSC Farm

In this opening session, Edible Schoolyard Project founder Alice Waters shares remarks on the importance of edible education. Then, Program Director Nick Lee and Community Manager Russell Sterten lead participants in reflecting on their inspiration and motivation for teaching with food.

• See the Padlet where participants shared goals and aspirations here.