Our Fourth Annual Summer Institute on
Food, Farming, Culture & Education
July 26-30,2010
9:30am-4:30pm
(with optional evening and weekend activities)
Hosted at Historic Suyematsu/Bentryn Farms
Day Road East, Bainbridge Island, WA
View Photos and Highlights from the 2010 Summer Institute
Teachers tending to crops at Morales Farm
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To change ideas about what land is for
is to change ideas about what anything is for.
- Aldo Leopold
We explored the possibilities for teaching and learning about food and farming in elementary and secondary education during this week-long institute. Set amidst the natural beauty and agricultural richness of the oldest and largest working landscapes on Bainbridge Island, our annual summer institute was aimed at helping K-12 and community based educators cultivate bridge classroom and community around food, farming, culture and education. This unique program offered educators an opportunity to deepen their professional repertoire, nurture educational leadership, enhance classroom curricula, build locally grown farm-school programs.
Session Topics
- Daily field work, farm demonstrations and hands-on learning activities
- Community Food Systems & Sustainable Communities
- Pedagogy and Practice in Approaching Food and Farm Education
- Building Blocks for Developing Farm-School Programs
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Cultivating Farm Stewardship and Food Citizenship
- Farming in Times of Scarcity and Abundance
- Community Landscapes, Reclaiming The Commons
- Culinary Arts Education
- Health and Nutrition
- Before there was a word for Organic, Growing up on Bainbridge Island farms
- Buy Local Challenge
- A visit to the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum
- Films and Discussion
Program Features
- Engaging and dialoguing with key practitioners and stakeholders in local and regional food and farming
- Experiencing local sustainable farming and local agrarian ideals practiced on at the oldest and one of the most productive working landscapes in our region.
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Bearing witness to one local community’s efforts to develop a stronger community and school based farm and food system.
- Spending time with our ever-expanding collection of curricular resources.
- Enjoying local grown and made lunches, snacks and wine!
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A participant in the 2010 Food, Farming, Culture and Education Summer Institute harvesting beans
The school itself shall be made a genuine form of active community life,
instead of place set apart in which to learn lessons.
- John Dewey
List of Invited Presenters and Featured Guests:
Judith Weinstock, Culinary Arts Educator, Food Muse Catering
Lola O’Rourke, Nutritionist
David Cowan, Physician, Healthier Kids Bainbridge
Tricia Sexton-Kovacs, WSDA Farm-School Program
Charlotte Garrido, Kitsap County Commissioner
Karen Molinari, Kitsap County Food and Farm Policy Council
Christy Carr, Friends of the Farms
Alex Moore, Cascade Harvest Coalition
Chris Plemmons, Olympic Community College, Kitsap County Food & Farm
Policy Council
Jackie Aitchison, WA Farmer’s Markets
Barry Peters, Bainbridge City Council
Sallie Maron, Sound Food
Jonathan Scherch, Antioch University Seattle
Diane Fish, WSU Agriculture Extension
Program Director: Jonathan Garfunkel, MAEd
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Past Participants and Presenters
Highlights from our 2009 Summer Institute
Photos from the 2009 Institute
Highlights from our 2008 Summer Institute
Highlights from our 2007 Summer Institute
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Program Information:
Enrollment was limited to 20 participants
25 clock hours were available (additional fee)
Lunch and snacks included
Participants received an Institute Handbook
Tuition:
Paid before June 15, $275 for Global Source members, $295 for others.
Paid after June 15, $295 for Global Source members, $315 for others.
A $45 deposit (towards tuition) was required to to reserve a place in this program (refundable up to two weeks before the start of the program).
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