Webinar: Growing Healthy Habits: Garden-Based Learning in Early Childhood

This event is hosted by KidsGardening. Gardening offers young children meaningful opportunities to explore nature, develop healthy eating habits, and engage in hands-on learning. This session will highlight practical ways early childhood educators can integrate garden-based learning into their programs to support nutrition education, outdoor play, and curiosity about where food comes from. Participants will explore strategies for starting and maintaining simple garden spaces, engaging children in planting and harvesting activities, and connecting garden experiences to cooking and tasting opportunities. The presentation will also share examples from early childhood programs that have successfully incorporated gardening to support healthy habits and outdoor learning.'

Webinar: Growing Students and Teachers: Overcoming School Garden Barriers in Ohio's Largest School D

This event is hosted by the School Garden Support Organization Network. In collaboration with community partners, including experts from Ohio State University Extension, Columbus City Schools is strengthening pathways for urban students to engage in hands-on agricultural learning and access real-world expertise that deepens classroom impact. Participants will leave with insights on how to scale a data-driven, teacher-informd program that brings hands-on food growing into urban schools while minimizing burder on educators.

Webinar: Undoing Borders Through Food and Alternative History / Deshaciendo Fronteras A Travez de Co

This event is hosted by KidsGardening. In this lesson, attendees will participate in a combination history lesson and cooking class to learn how food can bring history to life for students. We will discuss the history of the Bracero program in Southern California through the narrative of one young Bracero who ate Sopa de Fideo (noodle soup) for breakfast, lunch and dinner during his time as a farmworker. I will cook Sopa de Fideo and while our soup is cooking I will go over best practices for cooking with students. Participants will leave our session with resources for how to host a cooking class in their school, history lesson and a recipe.

Virtual Workshop: Well-Being through Outdoor Learning – Nature Connection and Mental Health

This event is hosted by the Outdoor Learning School & Store. Join OLS for this FREE virtual workshop for an overview of how educators and healthcare practitioners can better understand and support kids’ mental health through outdoor activities and to learn practical, low-pressure ways to support both student and teacher wellbeing through simple outdoor routines and experiences.

In-person Workshop: Roots & Recipes: Teaching Social Studies and Nutrition Outdoors

This event is hosted by Life Lab. Discover how food connects the garden, Ethnic Studies/ History and culture. In this hands-on Life Lab workshop, educators will explore how growing, harvesting, and sharing food can bring social studies and nutrition to life. Through garden tastings and storytelling, participants will explore how food connects to people, place, and culture, helping students see that every bite has a story behind it. Hosted at Life Lab's Garden Classroom on the UC Santa Cruz Farm

Webinar: Sharing the Bounty: Telling Your Data-Driven Story

This event is hosted by the School Garden Support Organization Network. Two veteran school garden educators from the Education Evaluation Nutrition Lab (EdEN) Intern Program at UT-Austin and Edible Schoolyard New Orleans will share their methodology of using existing program resources to tell a meaningful story. You will be guided through the processes of collecting, evaluating and showcasing your program data, and you will leave with a plan for drafting an impact report that is meaningful and appropriate for your unique stakeholders.