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"Excellent opportunity to learn and network around these issues."
"Very rich sharing of resources and collaboration."
"Some great connections were made."
"Thanks for the inspiration!"
Betsy Wittick and students cultivate with a plow at Laughing Crow Farm.
Coming this Summer
2nd Annual Food, Farming Culture & Education
Summer Institute
July 28-August 1 at Day Road Farms, Bainbridge Island, WA
Overview of Food, Farming, Culture and Education Program
What are the possibilities for teaching and learning
about food and farming in our classrooms and communities?
By touring, experiencing, and tasting produce from a local farm, we see firsthand the healthy
and organic processes necessary for wholesome food.
Since Fall 2006, more than 100 local educators and community members have been gathering to
engage in a meaningful professional and civic dialogue about food, farming, culture and education.
Participants represented fifteen different schools and an equal number of community organizations.
These dialogues attracted a wide range of community stakeholders who addressed diversity of perspectives and
identified common threads around a number of key issues.
- Community-Based Education
- Farming other Working Landscapes
- Food & Nutrition
- Habitat and Ecology
- Healthy Living
- History and Heritage
- Local and Global Commons
- Civics Education
"To change ideas about what land is for
is to change ideas about what anything is for."
—Aldo Leopold, from The Sand County Almanac
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For more detailed informations see the 2007 program
Food, Farming, Culture and Education Summer Institute July 2007
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Past Programs and Consultations
Food, Farming, Culture and Education Summer Institute
July 16-20,2007 9:30am-4:30pm
Day Road Farms, Bainbridge Island, WA
July 16-18, Educators' Retreat; July 19-20, Curriculum Workshop
FFCE Curriculum Projects with Wilkes Elementary and Island School
Ongoing, Bainbridge Island
Food, Farming, Culture & Education Dialogue
March 9, 2007, Chelan, WA
Food, Farming, Culture & Education Dialogue
February 6 and 13, 2007, Bainbridge Island, WA
Food, Farming, Culture & Education Dialogue
October 26, 2006, Bainbridge Island, WA
Food, Farming, Culture & Education Dialogue
December 5, 2006, Bainbridge Island, WA
Suggested Resources
Grades K-4, 5-8, 9-12
General
Mike Derzon, fifth grade teacher from the Island School,
gets a starter plant of
Marshall Strawberries from Carol McCarthy of the Bainbridge Island Historical Society,
during our October Dialogue at the Bainbridge Island Winery.
She has been helping to propagate this fruit of Island heritage, including with local schools.
(Read more about the Marshall Strawberry project in our program highlights.)
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