 Marshall High School Garden Program Specialist, Cale Nicholson, teaching a student to plant lettuce in the greenhouse. |
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DGS Sustainability Schools Explore Garden to Cafeteria
Multiple Delta Garden Study sustainability schools are exploring incorporation of their school garden produce into lunch meals. Before produce is integrated into full lunch offerings, DGS staff and interns offer recipe taste tests to students. Roasted turnips and garlic sauteed spinach have been big hits! Student-tested recipes are then offered as official school lunch options. Over 1,000 pounds of produce has been donated this year! Read more on the Arkansas Grow Healthy website.
Delta Garden Study Recipes Now Available Online
The Delta Garden Study Recipe Book is now available on the Delta Garden Study website. Each recipe was created with the assistance of the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute and utilizes garden-fresh produce, simple instructions, and easy-to-find ingredients. Each recipe contains a nutritional analysis and has been kid-tested by students in the Delta Garden Study.
Sign up for the Arkansas Grow Healthy Study Newsletter
Interested in the latest news and events on farm to school in Arkansas? Then sign up for the Arkansas Grow Healthy Study Newsletter! To sign up and view past newsletters, please visit http://growhealthy.uark.edu/.
Track Pounds of Produce Grown in DGS Gardens Visit the Delta Garden Study homepage to see how many pounds of produce has been grown in DGS gardens across the state.
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 2012-2013 Delta Garden Study Schools Wrap up First Semester The first semester is wrapping up at Yellville-Summit Middle School in Yellville and at Cloverdale Aerospace Technology Conversion Charter School in Little Rock. Both schools have successfully completed over 20 lessons! Dig Day, the Delta Garden Study fall kick-off event, brought students, teachers, parents, and community members together to expand each school garden. Additionally, Cloverdale will host a school garden field trip for the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group's Annual Conference in January. Yellville-Summit is now hosting monthly Saturday workdays and will gather together community and school stakeholders to discuss sustainability of the garden on January 14th. For more information and to see pictures of these two gardens, visit the Delta Garden Study website at www.arteengarden.com. |
 Arkansas GardenCorps Members Settling Into Sites
All eight Arkansas GardenCorps members are now firmly planted at their service sites and have dug into their tasks of garden development and maintenance, garden-based education, and volunteer recruitment to support sustainability of their respective gardens. The 2012-2013 Arkansas GardenCorps crew consists of Susan Alman serving at Dunbar Garden Project in Little Rock, Sanaz Arjomand serving at Harrisburg Middle School in Harrisburg, Kristy Brownell serving at Mabelvale Magnet Middle School in Little Rock, Andrew Carty and Harmony Hudson serving with the City of North Little Rock, Amy Crain serving at the Jonesboro Health, Wellness and Environmental Studies Elementary School in Jonesboro, LaBrittini Jones serving at Monticello Middle School in Monticello, and Kelsey Trotter serving at Marshall High School in Marshall. Members will serve at their sites through August 2013. Through AmeriCorps, each member receives a modest living allowance, healthcare and/or childcare, and an education award of $5,550 for 1700 hours of completed service time to be used for school expenses or to pay off school loans. Arkansas GardenCorps is hosted through the Childhood Obesity Prevention Research Program of the Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute in Little Rock. The mission of Arkansas GardenCorps is to promote the use of school and community gardens to increase environmental awareness and sustainable agriculture practices in Arkansas communities. For more information on Arkansas GardenCorps or any of the members and sites listed above, please visit our website at www.arteengarden.com/arkansas-gardencorps.
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 Delta Garden Study and Bank of America to Fund Two New School Gardens in 2013, Open to Entire State of Arkansas and Any Grade Level The ACHRI Childhood Obesity Prevention Research Program and Bank of America will be funding two new school gardens in the spring of 2013. Each $6,000 award will be used to build a new vegetable garden on a school campus of any grade level(s). Awards will come with training, curriculum materials, and technical expertise from the Delta Garden Study staff. The Request for Applications (RFA) will be posted on the Delta Garden Study website in early January. Feel free to contact Emily English at esenglish@uams.edu with any questions. |
Applications for Arkansas GardenCorps Service Sites to be Accepted in January 2013 New Arkansas GardenCorps Service Sites for the 2013-2014 program year will be selected through a competitive application process. Service sites can be at schools, community organizations, or state/local agencies who operate or oversee school and/or community gardens. Each service site must be able to provide direct service opportunities for the member in garden development and maintenance, garden-based education, and volunteer recruitment for sustainability of the garden(s). Each site must also be willing to assign one person as the Service Site Supervisor for the member. The Request for Applications (RFA) for Arkansas GardenCorps Service Sites for the 2013-2014 Program Year will be released in mid-January. Please visit www.arteengarden.com/arkansas-gardencorps for more information. Contact Emily English at esenglish@uams.edu with questions.
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Thank you for for your interest in the Delta Garden Study, a program of the Childhood Obesity Prevention Research Program at Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute in Little Rock, Arkansas.
This research is based upon work supported by the USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Delta Obesity Prevention Research Unit under Agreement No. 58-6251-8-039. |
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