Teachers’ Virtual Gardening Training Program Available Free to Those Who Qualify
Apr 29, 2008 | UncategorizedOn behalf of The Food for Everyone Foundation I am pleased to announce the launch of a unique Teachers’ Virtual Gardening Training Program, that promises to empower teachers with real gardening skills, along with teaching and demonstration materials, like nothing has ever done before
The foundation’s generosity in giving almost $300 worth of unique gardening materials to qualifying teachers is simply fulfilling the foundation’s mission of “teaching the world to grow food one family at a time.”
We have been working for many years to make these materials readily available in a format that can be downloaded to computers anywhere in the world. I am excited at the program’s potential for helping young people get back to the basics of really knowing where their food comes from, and even growing their own food.
We are looking for teachers who teach - or who want to teach gardening - and particularly for those who would like to display and promote their class’s vegetable gardens on a website. This could be especially beneficial if the school supports the class and garden.
The foundation is prepared to donate the following digital books and training videos, created by world-renowned Dr. Jacob R. Mittleider, for qualifying teachers’ use:
* Six Steps to Successful Gardening - a graphically illustrated short book on the basics.
* Mittleider Gardening Course - created by BYU PhD’s in Educational Psychology - Excellent!
* Gardening By the Foot - Pictorial how-to on container gardening around the world.
* Lets Grow Tomatoes - The favorite of millions. Teaches you tomato growing start to finish.
* Mittleider Gardening Manuals (9) - On several of the most important gardening subjects.
* Grow-Bed Gardening - Hundreds of pictures show & teach growing in the natural soil.
* Soil-Bed Gardening Basics (23 videos) - 10 to 20 minutes each on dirt gardening, or
* Grow-Box Gardening Basics (21 videos) - covers everything needed for container growing.
These vegetable gardening books and videos are so GOOD the foundation is able to promise people ‘a great garden in any soil, in almost any climate’, and further promise that those following the true principles and procedures taught will typically increase their garden yields by a factor of 5 to 10 times! Specific information on each book is found at www.foodforeveryone.org/store
Only the Six Steps to Successful Gardening book is needed for a teacher to jump-start the gardening season right away, and the easiest way to develop a first year quick-start teaching plan is to follow the Six Steps book page by page.
The Mittleider Gardening Course is designed for the student who wants more in-depth information, or if the class needs or wants to grow in containers. The combination of the two, along with the other digital training material, provides for teaching students from Elementary all the way through College levels.
As classes start and begin to see results from their gardens they are requested to document their progress and success on their own website. The foundation will also give some direction and assistance in setting up a website to those who request it.
Agriculture-based and other teachers interested in teaching vegetable gardening using the foundation’s methods are encouraged to send an email to Steve@Foodforeveryone.org and put “Teachers’ Virtual Gardening Training Program” in the subject line.
Jim Kennard, President of Food For Everyone Foundation, has a wealth of teaching and gardening training and experience upon which to draw in helping the Foundation “Teach the world to grow food one family at a time.” Jim has been a Mittleider gardener for the past twenty nine years; he is a Master Mittleider Gardening Instructor, and has taught classes and worked one-on-one with Dr. Jacob Mittleider on several humanitarian gardening training projects in the USA and abroad. He has conducted projects in Armenia, America, Madagascar, and Turkey by himself. He assists gardeners all over the world from the foodforeveryone.org foodforeveryone.org website FAQ pages and free Gardening Group, and grows a large demonstration garden at Utah’s Hogle Zoo in his spare time.
Gardening Books, CDs and Software are available at foodforeveryone.org foodforeveryone.org