The Center for Ecoliteracy pioneered work with school gardens, school lunches, and integrating ecological principles and sustainability into school curricula. The CFE works toward schooling that returns to basics: engaging with the natural world, understanding how nature sustains life, nurturing communities, and exploring consequences of how we feed and provision ourselves.
Resources
Master Gardeners
The Master Gardener program trains avid gardeners, who in return volunteer through local university extension agents. Master gardeners help with school and community gardening. Here’s a map that connects you to master gardeners nationwide. Helpline (989) 6853 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays for garden questions. Click here for the group’s monthly tips.
Preparing for fall gardening
It’s time to plant starts of fall vegetables and sow lettuce for fall harvest. I’ve got kale, collards and broccoli already started. Cucumbers and zucchinis are dying back. Untreated they go to wilting diseases but not until I’ve had a good harvest. Don’t compost diseased plants, it spreads the problem.
– Dorothy Mullen