Tag: garden to table
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Busy Garden Bees at Growing Sustainably
Author: Shelby Maidl, Project Coordinator for Growing Sustainably Spring has sprung in the Growing Sustainably school gardens. Students have been busy, attending Garden Club and Cooking Matters classes after school and Garden Education during their school day. At McKinley Elementary Garden Club, they worked with their instructors (interns from San José State University) to build…
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Why Nutrition Matters
Author: Trina Nguyen San José’s community of apartments, complexes, and crowded houses limit students to engage in nutrition and building community. Growing Sustainably has influenced students from Kindergarten to 6th grade on the importance and benefits of healthy lifestyles. Growing Sustainably has 4 sub-projects: Gardening Workshops, Gardening Club, Cooking Matters, and Neighborhood Harvest. With the…
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Pitch In: help build Garden to Table’s new urban farm!
Garden to Table’s Groundbreaking event for their brand new farm is just around the corner. To make this transformation successful, Garden to Table needs the help of over 80 volunteers to build raised beds! If you’re interested in pitching in and getting dirty, sign up for one of these time slots: – Saturday, Oct 19th,…
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Garden to Table Advocates for Agriculture Land Use on Industrial Zones
CommUniverCity San José’s Growing Sustainably, a direct partnership of Garden to Table, advocated successfully for changing Title 20 (Zoning Ordinance) for industrial zones to allow up to one acre of urban agricultural land use. When Barry Swenson signed a land use agreement with Garden to Table to allow them to use a one-acre empty lot by…
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Featured in SJSU’s Acceleration Campaign
You might have noticed Zach Lewis, Garden to Table’s Executive Director at San José State University, sharing his experience about SJSU’s Urban Planning graduate program, “Studying urban planning at San Jose State was the best decision I ever made. It gave me the chance to take an idea and grow it into a nonprofit.” We were part of…
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Bearing fruit with Garden to Table – Growing Sustainably
Our program and partnership Growing Sustainably – Garden to Table, was featured this Saturday August 3, 2013 in L.A. Times by Lee Romney on the story of how Garden to Table began, and how our efforts have addressed the issues of poverty, crime, neighborhood blight, and food security in the Central San José neighborhoods. We…
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Clearing Backyard for a New Neighborhood Garden
This weekend we partnered with Garden to Table and the Downtown Streets Team to engage community members to volunteer and help clear out our next neighborhood community garden. A wonderful couple shared their backyard for three households to transform into a neighborhood garden. These households and community members will be determined in the coming…
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Growing Sustainably – Garden to Table July 2013 Update
The weather may be getting warmer, but our Growing Sustainably: Garden to Table apartment gardens are still going strong, thanks to volunteers and community residents. Do you know an apartment that could be a potential site for our apartment garden project? You want to help build gardens with us? Join us at our next meeting…