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Thought for Food

Submitted by J.R. Logan on October 24, 2011 - 2:43pm

Did you know it's Food Day today? Did you know there are many days of celebration's in New Haven, so I guess we can call it Food Day's? If you have not already done so, you should checkout the list of upcoming events in New Haven (http://fooddaynh.org/find-an-event/). There is a lot to choose from. I have already been celebrating. This Saturday I went by bike on a tour of many of New Haven's urban gardens.

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It's Time for School Gardens to Grow

Submitted by J.R. Logan on July 29, 2011 - 12:10am

In addition to my job as Director of New Media Strategies at United Way, I spend a lot of time volunteering as the Board Chair of the New Haven Land Trust. In this role I get to see another side of the community as I work with environmentalists, gardeners and community organizers.  Recently I have found myself working on a project to connect gardens to schools.

You might be asking yourself why do school gardens matter? In my view they matter because school gardens can function as an outdoor classroom, creating opportunities for hands on learning and student engagement across all subject areas and grades.  Studies have shown that school gardening programs boost students’ scores on science achievement tests.(1) Educators are seeing that activity, healthy eating and learning are linked. In addition to anecdotal evidence, a growing body of research-based literature supports the use of school gardens as a teaching tool. Research has found that participation in youth gardening programs can have the following impacts on students:(2)

Community Voices Podcast: Melissa VanTine

In this brief interview Melissa VanTine speaks about her aspirations for the community and some ideas to help generate donations.

Covidien Employees Winterize Grand Acres Community Garden

Covidien employees spent a sunny but blustery afternoon at Grand Acres Community Garden in the Fair Haven section of the city.  The group raked leaves, began to winterize the gardens and worked on the living wall as part of Covidien's Day of Caring activities to support their United Way Campaign.  Grand Acres is just one of the New Haven Land Trust's 45 gardens in the city of New Haven that utilize vacant urban plots to create community vegetable gardens.

Days of Caring at Grand Acres Community Garden

On Saturday, as part of Days of Caring, United Way volunteers from the Young Leaders Society joined New Haven Land Trust gardeners to build a section living wall. A living wall is a fence that is built in such a way as to allow grasses to grow on and around it. The project took place in Fair Haven at the Grand Acres Community Garden.

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