Composting Workshop

Interns participated in the community wide composting workshop led by Hoover High garden interns. There were three groups led in three different languages (Vietnamese, Spanish, English). Hoover interns taught about creating a compost pile, elements needed for a good pile, and how to manage the piles from start to finish. Hosted at the New Roots Community Farm.

Gardens in a Box

Our summer community project finished with delivering the Gardens in a Box. City Heights refugee families received a variety of potted plants to grow in their apartments of in courtyard spaces. The purpose of the project is to expose young children (5 years or younger) to growing plants and eating healthy, organic food. Interns also conducted surveys of eligible residents prior to delivery, then delivered to their homes. They will mentor the families along the way on caring for their new plants as well.

New Roots Community Farm Tour

Interns visited the New Roots Community Farm on 54th/Chollas Pkwy. to see different methods of farming from various ethnic groups in San Diego. After seeing different features of the farm, students were asked to plan out their own community garden. Each plan had to have sustainable features such as water conservation, intercropping, native plant areas, etc. They came up with some fun, creative ideas for farms!

Media Arts Center Produces Videos on Garden

Crawford High Garden summer interns worked with the Media Arts Center San Diego's Teen Producers Project who made videos about the school garden. Crawford interns practiced their interviewing skills in front of the camera, learning to communicate their knowledge of gardening and food justice issues in the community.

Summer Cooking Fun

Pesto Surprise with Mrs. Raymond.

 Cooking with Roberto.

 Summer squash stir fry.

Congratulations Crawford garden interns for summer 2011

Summer Intern program 2011 has begun at Crawford Garden. 

It's almost been a month since the last post.  There is a lot going on at the garden and these are the awesome garden interns for the summer! 

The summer program will run for 8 weeks where students will learn to maintain the garden and work on several projects in the community.  More to come on this!

Crawford Composting featured on KPBS!

Did you know, we composted over 5000 pounds of food waste from the cafeteria salad bars during this school year!

Students share about their composting experience in this video created by Megan Burke and Brian Myers at Media Arts Center San Diego.

So Awesome!