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This resource lists activities and tasks for volunteers in the Edible Schoolyard kitchen classroom.
Knife skills are at the foundation of every students’ experience in the Edible Schoolyard kitchen classroom. Before students touch knives in the kitchen, they participate in a kitchen orientation. This orientation lays the foundation for safely learning and practicing knife skills.
In this lesson, students participate in making a potting mix using a recipe. Students will: read recipe, delegate tasks, measure ingredients, and work together to mix potting mix in a coordinated choreography.
This resource shows how the Edible Schoolyard Project structures one-on-one between managers and employees. These meetings serve to get both people clear about task priorities, any concerns that may be present for the employee or supervisor, and what support might be provided.
When developing science lessons for the garden setting, we rely on four primary methods of integrating content into a typical garden class: opening circle demonstrations, rotating labs, small working groups, and hands-on experiences that take the entire class period.
This resource provides three soil mix recipes. Each of these mixes is a healthy and effective combination of ingredients, whether you are working on a larger plot of land or seedling trays.
This resource provides an overview of practices that teachers at the Edible Schoolyard Berkeley use to make lessons inclusive and engaging. These methods help students of diverse learning styles access curriculum and achieve learning goals.
Below is a compilation of fundraising and general nonprofit management resources.
Longtime garden consultant Wendy Johnson compiled this list of gardening books to help the reader become more skilled and knowledgeable about the theories, techniques, and history of gardening.
This resource, compiled by the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, lists providers of high-quality seeds.
We use Reflection Cards with our students to prompt reflection and self-evaluation on skills, norms, and behaviors that are important in the kitchen and garden classrooms.
This resource highlights several schools that have succeeded in bringing food that they grow into their cafeteria programs.
The attached resource provides a chart to help track fundraising efforts.
This resource provides a set of open-ended questions intended to spur conversation and reflective thinking among students. At the Edible Schoolyard Berkeley, these questions are hand-written on index cards and are used in the kitchen classroom to encourage communication around the table.
When choosing ingredients for making a good potting mix or when selecting a potting soil mix that
is already made, check to make sure the ingredients of the mix you choose are organically grown so
that no toxins or chemical sprays are present in the ingredients you are handling.
The goal of this resource is to inspire you in the many ways you can use an outdoor classroom to teach virtually any discipline.
The Edible Schoolyard kitchen teachers provide these tasting ballots as a way to help students think creatively about their food experiences and preferences.
The following is a list of academic studies examining the positive impacts of school gardens, farm-to-school programs and school cooking programs on students (with a focus on school garden programs).
This resource provides a systematic framework for delegating tasks and establishing timelines for new projects.
The Edible Schoolyard Workplace Culture describes our values as an organization.
