3rd Annual DPS Garden and Greenhouse Forum - March 7th!! #nuffsaid
We are excited to announce our 3rd Annual DPS Greenhouse and Garden Forum to be held on Saturday March 7th 2015! We will be offering interactive question & answer panels in the morning on a variety of garden-related topics, as well as informative 2-hour afternoon breakout sessions that you can register for. Also, come early for free breakfast and stay for lunch, donated by the Kitchen Restaurant!
All teachers, parents, students, administrators, interested and involved community members and school representatives from other districts are invited to attend!!
Please see the link below to our Eventbrite site for more information on topics and to register.
Note: You must pick one session to attend in the afternoon in order to complete your registration. We highly encourage multiple attendees from each school if there are a variety of topics that apply to your garden.
Register Here @: www.dpsgarden.eventbrite.com
Please see the schedule below and please note that morning panels are 1 hour each, with a chance to see 2 different panels. You MUST register for one of the afternoon breakout sessions per attendee:
Garden Forum Schedule – March 7th, 2015
8:30 – Registration, Breakfast, Info Booths*
9:00 – Introduction
9:15-10:15 – 1st Panel Session
10:15-10:30 – Break
10:30-11:30 – 2nd Panel Sessions
11:30-12:30 – Lunch**
12:30-2:30 – Breakout Sessions
2:30-3:00 – Networking
Q&A Morning Panels:
- Year-Round Gardening
- Nutrition & Healthy Living
- Involving Parents & Community In Your School Garden
- Fundraising for your Garden
2-Hour Afternoon Breakout Sessions
- Garden to Cafeteria Professional Development - 3-5 Grade Lessons plans to connect your school garden to what’s being taught in the classroom including Colorado Academic and NextGen Standards.
- Creative Classroom Gardening Techniques (The Kitchen Community) - Successful ways to expand your opportunities to connect students to the garden.
- Youth Farmers Markets & Garden to Cafeteria Certification - Have extra produce from your school gardens and don’t know what to do with it? Learn aboutYouth Farmers Markets and get certified in the DPS Garden-to-Cafeteria program run by Food and Nutrition Services.
- Garden of Youth (GOY) – The Garden of Youth provides youth with disabilities theopportunity to develop their life and work skills while growing, harvesting, and selling produce from highschool gardens.
*An Information Hall will feature resources for school gardens by our partners such as: DUG, Slow Foods Denver, The Kitchen Community, and much more!
**Breakfast and Lunch to be Provided - Thanks to our Lunch Sponsor:
