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
Educators engaging in field work on Bainbridge Island Vineyards
at our 2009 Summer Institute
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To change ideas about what land is for
is to change ideas about what anything is for.
- Aldo Leopold
Join us for a week to explore the possibilities for teaching and learning about food and farming in elementary and secondary education. Set amidst the natural beauty and agricultural richness of the oldest and largest working landscapes on Bainbridge Island, our annual summer institute is aimed at helping K-12 and community based educators cultivate bridge classroom and community around food, farming, culture and education. This unique program offers educators an opportunity to deepen their professional repertoire, nurture educational leadership, enhance classroom curricula, build locally grown farm-school programs.
Discover how a lived experience can inform a more lived curriculum.
Connect with people, places, projects
that will enrich and enliven your teaching and learning.
Be well fed and help feed others.
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
- Engage and dialogue with key practitioners and stakeholders in local and regional food and farming
- Experience 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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Bear witness to one local community’s efforts to develop a stronger community and school based farm and food system.
- Spend time with our ever-expanding collection of curricular resources.
- Enjoy local grown and made lunches, snacks and wine!
...More program details to follow
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Summer Institute Participants at Suyematsu-Bentryn Farms
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
Partial List of Invited Presenters and Featured Guests*:
- Gerard and Jo Ann Bentryn, Bainbridge Island Vineyards and Farms
- Betsey Wittick, Laughing Crow Farms
- Brian MacWhorter, Butler Green Farms
- Karen Selvar, Bainbridge Island Farms
- Friends of the Farms Board Members
- Judith Weinstock, Culinary Arts Educator, Foodmuse Catering
- Lola O’Rourke, Nutritionist, Past Spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association
- David Cowan, Physician, Healthier Kids Bainbridge
- Tricia Sexton-Kovacs, WSDA Farm-School Program
- Christine Rolfes, WA State Representative, proponent of Health Kids, Local
Farms Act
- Charlotte Garrido, Kitsap County Commissioner, co-founder of Kitsap County
Food and Farm Policy Council
- Kay Nakao, Sakai Family Farm
- The Leiter Family Foundation
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 is limited to 20 participants
25 clock hours will be available (additional fee)
Lunch and snacks included
Participants will receive 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) is required to to
reserve a place in this program (refundable up to two weeks before the start of the program).
*Program subject to change.
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