Sentences with phrase «providing edible gardens»

One - hundred percent of the proceeds from the Popcorn that Gives Back kit ($ 14) goes to Urban Sprouts, a non-profit dedicated to providing edible gardens and nutrition education to students in under - served San Francisco schools.

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Similar garden - to - school programs include Berkeley's Edible Schoolyard Program and the Baltimore school district's 33 - acre Great Kids Farm, which provides learning opportunities for students and produce for an after - school meals program.

The Edible Academy, a leading garden - based education platform, provides hands - on activities, and interactive programs that help children, their families, and their teachers learn more about growing and preparing vegetables, fruits, and herbs while helping them gain a lifelong interest in gardening and healthy living.

I'm proud to have secured $ 1.5 million in state funding for the new, state - of - the - art Edible Academy and look forward to working with The New York Botanical Garden to provide students and their families with the tools they need to connect with nature, and lead long, healthy and happy lives.»

The Edible Schoolyard The Edible Schoolyard, in collaboration with Martin Luther King Junior Middle School in Berkeley, California, provides urban public school students with a one - acre organic garden and a kitchen classroom.

Companion planting, or grouping complementary plants together in the garden to benefit each other, can be done for a variety of reasons, such as to provide shade or a wind barrier to other plants, or to cover the surface of the soil with edible plants to crowd out weeds, or even to help boost the growth, flavor, or yields of food crops.

private and communal rainwater cisterns will provide irrigation for edible green roofs, community and private edible gardens, fruit bearing vegetation, and vertical gardens that will inhabit the facades, laneway, and yards and spaces between buildings.

Perennial herbs, grasses and shrubs are somewhat better, and trees in a diverse forest or more savannah - like edible forest garden, with trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and ground covers (all of which can provide food and materials as well as benefit each other) ** are even better at preserving soil moisture while also encouraging diverse wildlife and providing high yields of multiple food crops, lumber and other materials.