Growing Together: Open Forum

Hi all! We're really excited for this month's Community Chat on Youth Garden Advocacy on 10/17. We'll be joined by some of our friends at the National Farm to School Network and can chat about anything related to advocating for youth gardens.

We can talk about state and national policies related to youth gardens, garnering support in your local communities, making the case for gardens to your school or school district, connecting with advocacy groups, and anything else you'd like to discuss. From those new to gardening to seasoned educators, everyone is welcome!

If you can't make it, you can still register and drop your questions in the registration form or add them to this thread. And if you're new to Community Chats, you can learn more here.

Hope to see many of you there!

10/17/23 3 PM ET
Link to register

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Amelia Dupuis
Kids Garden Community Manager
KidsGardening
she/her
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Follow-up from this week's Community Chat on youth garden advocacy! This was a great conversation among Kids Garden Community members and big thanks to Trisha and Cassandra from National Farm to School Network for all of their advice. They compiled a list of resources related to this topic and the Chat conversation - those are linked below and also attached as a PDF. 

Check out the Community Chat recording attached to this post (time stamps of topics below) and let us know if you have other advocacy-related questions!

NFSN Contacts

• Cassandra Bull, Policy Specialist at Cassandra@farmtoschool.org

• Trisha Bautista, Program Manager at Trisha@farmtoschool.org 

 

Upcoming NFSN Events 

• Coffee Chat Highlighting Equity in Farm to School on October 19 at 11:30 am ET  - LinkedIn Live!

• Movement Meeting on October 26 at 3pm ET - Register Here

• Farm to School Month Webpage - Check out here

• Farm to School Month Storefront - Check out here

• Farm to School Month Sweepstakes - Participate here!

• Farm to School Month Upcoming Events - Calendar here

 

Advocacy

• Benefits of Farm to School

• Advocacy Packets School Garden

• How to Meet with Your Legislators: Message Templates and Pest Practices

• Farm to School Advocacy

• Relationship Building for Program Success

• USDA Growing Your Farm to School Program

• Green School Yard America

• Other NFSN Resources - Policy

• School Garden Support Organization Network resource pages for measuring your program impact and funding models

• Organizing Engagement

 

Youth Engagement

• Youth Participatory Action Research

• PhotoVoice

• Supplementary Article Here

• Growing a School Community

• Effective Youth Engagement through Garden-based Learning

 

Example and status of state garden-related bills

• Arizona HB2349

• Arizona SB1546

• New York S2070

• Nevada SB244

• Roadmap for farm to school (CA report)

Recording Time Stamps

10:50 - Strategies of advocacy for sustainable funding and integration into schools

23:35 - Tips for approaching and involving a school in a community garden

• Ideas for youth advocacy and ownership of the garden

• Ideas for partnering with a school

47:40 - Approaching legislators

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Amelia Dupuis
Kids Garden Community Manager
KidsGardening
she/her
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-13-2023 12:29:21 PM
From: Amelia Dupuis (she/her)
Subject: Youth Garden Advocacy Community Chat

Hi all! We're really excited for this month's Community Chat on Youth Garden Advocacy on 10/17. We'll be joined by some of our friends at the National Farm to School Network and can chat about anything related to advocating for youth gardens.

We can talk about state and national policies related to youth gardens, garnering support in your local communities, making the case for gardens to your school or school district, connecting with advocacy groups, and anything else you'd like to discuss. From those new to gardening to seasoned educators, everyone is welcome!

If you can't make it, you can still register and drop your questions in the registration form or add them to this thread. And if you're new to Community Chats, you can learn more here.

Hope to see many of you there!

10/17/23 3 PM ET
Link to register

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Amelia Dupuis
Kids Garden Community Manager
KidsGardening
she/her
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