Growing Together: Open Forum

Hi! We have another Community Chat coming up on Thursday 2/20 on the topic of disaster preparedness and recovery as it relates to weather events (fires, flooding, extreme temperatures, etc.). We'll be sharing best practices and advice on how to protect your garden, support recovery, and safely resume programming after an event. 

If you have experience in this area or questions, we hope you can join! And if you can't join, please share your experience and questions in this thread (or in the registration). 

Link to register

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Amelia Dupuis
Kids Garden Community Manager
KidsGardening
she/her
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Follow-up from last week's Community Chat! There was so much good information and advice shared during this Chat by our topic specialists, Glenda and Lindsey, and everyone else on the call. The recording of the Community Chat is attached and a list of resources that were shared is below. If you have other resources to share or advice from personal experience preparing for or recovering from a weather-related disaster, please add to this list! 

Resources

• Extension Disaster Education Network: A collaborative multi-state effort by Cooperative Extension Services across the country to improve the delivery of services to citizens affected by disasters. EDEN's mission is to reduce the impact of disasters through research-based education.

• Kids Garden Community thread on fire recovery with detailed advice from Lindsey

• 5 Steps to Healthy Produce During Wildfire Smoke

• Produce Safety After a Fire

• Is it safe to eat my garden produce affected by wildfires?

• Study: Produce Safety after Urban Wildfire

• What should I do about the wildfire ash covering my yard and garden?

• Protecting Indoor Air from Wildfire Smoke

• Boulder County resource for fire response: firewise landscaping (includes a link to a post-fire recovery webinar)

• Food to Fight Wildfires

• Soil Remediation Recommendations (research project on soil remediation)

• Resource collection for managing heat waves

• High Speed Handwashing resources

• Enjoying Our Healthy Harvest curriculum

 

Time Stamps

8:50 - Best practices for gardens following a fire

28:10 - Tips for managing droughts, extreme heat, and "pests"

40:45 - Tips for managing cold weather events

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Amelia Dupuis
Kids Garden Community Manager
KidsGardening
she/her
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-19-2025 08:53:51 AM
From: Amelia Dupuis (she/her)
Subject: Community Chat 2/20 on Weather Disasters

Hi! We have another Community Chat coming up on Thursday 2/20 on the topic of disaster preparedness and recovery as it relates to weather events (fires, flooding, extreme temperatures, etc.). We'll be sharing best practices and advice on how to protect your garden, support recovery, and safely resume programming after an event. 

If you have experience in this area or questions, we hope you can join! And if you can't join, please share your experience and questions in this thread (or in the registration). 

Link to register

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Amelia Dupuis
Kids Garden Community Manager
KidsGardening
she/her
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