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do you reuse the water from this outdoor sink

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What is the average group size in the garden at a time?

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How do you handle covid safety with kids handling / eating plants in the garden? Advice for working with much younger kids (who still put fingers in mouths and then touch everything)?

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Is the pollinator space in just one place or do you have pollinator areas throughout the garden?

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What is a good source for getting child-sized, good quality garden tools?

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does the program start growing anything in the fall or is the focus on harvest and prepping the soil for the winter/spring season?

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is the garden site avail. for us to visit? now or in school year?

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is the garden site avail. for us to visit? now or in school year?

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Do you connect your garden class to science standards, like NGSS?

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Do you offer bilingual class for your students?

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how is the garden maintained during the summer? (who?)

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What is the free app for mulch?

www.getchipdrop.com

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How long are the students onsite during a single session?
And how often do they return?

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Which tools would you recommend for the 3-5 year old age group?

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My biggest question is for classroom management. I always have student who don't want to participate or goof around to impress their friends, etc.. how does managing behaviors work in the edible schoolyard?

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Can you share the instructions on how to clean tools?

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Do you have recommendations for sturdy temporary shade structures until more permanent ones can be built?

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How do you protect your birds from predators while they free range?

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Do you have any concerns about chicken flu?

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Do you level or differentiate your classes and lessons so 8th graders aren't doing the same as 6th graders?  Or maybe it doesn't matter?

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How do you manage students working in the garden? Do they sign up and do it during their break times? Do teachers bring their classes out there? Does a full-time garden teacher facilitate the student involvement or do classroom teachers do that? Coming from the elementary school perspective.

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What are some ideas to adapt the lessons and activities for special education?

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do the compost piles attract rodents?

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Do you have a monthly guide to what lessons are taught in your classes?

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This is a very elementary question but I'm new to gardening. What is the best way to approach deciding what to plant together? For example, is it good to plant pollinators next to edibles or better to have pollinators in their separate area? When planning the garden, do you plant things that need a similar level of watering together? Then I guess there's the sun/shade issue. Wow, there's a lot of things to consider...

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Do you all practice vermicomposting in your compost lab as well?

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What has been your students favorite part of the garden?

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Does the school have open house or events for pre-school, elderly or other community groups?

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Does the school have open house or events for pre-school, elderly or other community groups?

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What is the best way to get started with a small garden?

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What challenges have you faced in having chickens in the garden with children

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What made you choose in-ground beds vs raised beds?

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What made you choose in-ground beds vs raised beds?

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How do you discourage rodents from the compost pile?

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How do you discourage rodents from the compost pile?

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HOW DO YOU HANDLE YOUR LESSON PLAN VERSUS COOL STUFF HAPPENING THAT THE KIDS WOULD RATHER CHECK OUT?

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HOW DO YOU HANDLE YOUR LESSON PLAN VERSUS COOL STUFF HAPPENING THAT THE KIDS WOULD RATHER CHECK OUT?

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Were specific trees planted surrounding the garden areas? Do they interact with the crops grown?

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Were specific trees planted surrounding the garden areas? Do they interact with the crops grown?

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Is there an existing curriculum that was built off of for your classes, or was the curriculum used for the Edible Schoolyard started from scratch?

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How long do the straw bales last if you are not using for bedding?

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How long do the straw bales last if you are not using for bedding?

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What are some ways you ensure your teaching and cooking are relevant to the different communities and cultures that your students come from?

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Any resources for compost training/set up/maintainance in the Bay Area?

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Do you have honey bees on site?

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what structures would you prioritize for a smaller, urban outdoor space?

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Do you have any heat source in the outdoor kitchen?

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Do you have any heat source in the outdoor kitchen?

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Do you use any rain catchment? If so, can you talk about your system? Thank you!

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Do you use any rain catchment? If so, can you talk about your system? Thank you!

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Back to the sink question, we have had issues with Environmental Health agreeing to outdoor sinks at our schools.  Assume you just havent gotten them involved :)?

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Back to the sink question, we have had issues with Environmental Health agreeing to outdoor sinks at our schools.  Assume you just havent gotten them involved :)?

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How do you share the tasks for the day. For example, when sharing knowledge about compost, does it mean that all the students will be working with the compost? You need to have toos for all the kids.

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How do you share the tasks for the day. For example, when sharing knowledge about compost, does it mean that all the students will be working with the compost? You need to have toos for all the kids.

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How much of this garden was planned from the beginning and how much of it emerged organically?

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How’s the students response to the lesson plans surrounding Pollinators and bees?

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Do you have suggestions for composting in a small space?

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Do you have suggestions for composting in a small space?

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What was the very first part of the garden that was created?

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Do you have a resource for lesson plans you use for your program?

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Go to favorites for perennial flower beds?

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Is there a good reference to figure out what times of the year which butterflies visit your zone, state or town?

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Is there a good reference to figure out what times of the year which butterflies visit your zone, state or town?

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Do you have example examples of a syllabus, gardening rules, beginner guidelines for teacher and students for starting a small garden?

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Do you have any recommendations for funding resources, grants?

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Do you have any recommendations for funding resources, grants?

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How do you approach pests in the garden?

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How do you approach pests in the garden?

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I've been thinking about making our garden more accessible to wheelchairs, but I inherited a space that makes this tough (narrow pathways, really uneven ground, etc.) any creative ideas on how to address this?

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I've been thinking about making our garden more accessible to wheelchairs, but I inherited a space that makes this tough (narrow pathways, really uneven ground, etc.) any creative ideas on how to address this?

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What are best practices for calling kiddos back to the 4 B's

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What are best practices for calling kiddos back to the 4 B's

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Our organization is moving away from direct education (teaching the children directly) and working towards empowering site champions to take ownership of their own school garden and to continue working with children in the garden setting. Do you all have any experience working towards school sustainability?

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Is it possible to create a yearlong curriculum for students to undergo in the garden? Is the in-school building curriculum informed by what students have discovered or learned in the garden or is the garden work seen as a break from the standard curriculum?

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Is it possible to create a yearlong curriculum for students to undergo in the garden? Is the in-school building curriculum informed by what students have discovered or learned in the garden or is the garden work seen as a break from the standard curriculum?

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Do you organize a classroom into groups or stations in the garden? Just thinking of how to manage a class of 20 out in the garden.

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Do you organize a classroom into groups or stations in the garden? Just thinking of how to manage a class of 20 out in the garden.

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Do the kids are able to manage the space? How long does it take for the teachers or other people to take care of the space?

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Do the kids are able to manage the space? How long does it take for the teachers or other people to take care of the space?

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How often are students in the garden\ kitchen classroom?

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What works best in the garden at ESY; oral presentation on lessons or written on outdoor boards?

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Need help with the business side of building an outdoor education gardening program that has grown over the last years. Any suggestions? Anyone I could talk with on phone or if I could come visit? I am in Albuquerque, NM.

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Need help with the business side of building an outdoor education gardening program that has grown over the last years. Any suggestions? Anyone I could talk with on phone or if I could come visit? I am in Albuquerque, NM.

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How involved are parents and other adult community members in the learning experience?

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How involved are parents and other adult community members in the learning experience?

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Do the students have to sign a waiver? I am asking because some students have allergies and sensitivities to outdoor activities. What do you do about that? 

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Do the students have to sign a waiver? I am asking because some students have allergies and sensitivities to outdoor activities. What do you do about that? 

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I thought you should avoid having cats in a food garden.

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Do you ever do field trips for students? In the summer?

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Do you ever do field trips for students? In the summer?

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would love to hear more from anyone about routines of opening / closing circles. I want to build better consistency and ritual to this.

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Does anyone have set station ideas that you use in the garden for your students? For example a dig soil box that students can go and dig through soil. I'm looking for some ideas that are permanent and always there so I don't have to create 4 or 5 stations every time I take the students out.

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do you have any special graduation for being garden teacher?

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do you have any special graduation for being garden teacher?

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What are some ideas to adapt the lessons and activities for special education?

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What are some ideas to adapt the lessons and activities for special education?

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What are some good resources for getting quality real tools that are child-sized?

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Do your learners engage in math, social studies, , language arts, art, etc. through their time in the garden... or is the time focused on science topics exclusively?

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Do you have other bed styles other than the row crop beds? Thinking about creating spaces differently such as bean tents/sunflower houses and keyhole shaped beds

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Is the garden curriculum that you use available to us?

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Is the garden curriculum that you use available to us?

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Do you have any programs to teach herbal wisdom?

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Do you have any programs to teach herbal wisdom?

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Do you have any meditation areas?

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do you think something similar would be achievable for kids to create? I am 13 years old and would be interested in working on a similar project in my organization

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Do you spray edible plants to prevent pests?

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Do you spray edible plants to prevent pests?

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class of 25 students (K-6), I found colored necklaces made of yarn to symbolize garden tasks- blue-watering, green-weeding, yellow- aerating, redcomposting

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class of 25 students (K-6), I found colored necklaces made of yarn to symbolize garden tasks- blue-watering, green-weeding, yellow- aerating, redcomposting

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Include a lightbulb activity, how can they combine some of the ingredients used that day with their favorite meal?

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Include a lightbulb activity, how can they combine some of the ingredients used that day with their favorite meal?