COMING UP NEXT
“Cultivating Health & Well-Being in School Gardens”
By Nathan Kennard Larson
Wednesday, June 5, 2024, 7:00 pm
Goodman Community Center, 149 Waubesa Street, Madison, WI 53704 (in-person only)
In addition to being vibrant outdoor learning environments, school gardens can support the overall health well-being of children in important ways. Join us to hear stories and learn about the many benefits of garden-based learning and the growing school garden movement.
This presentation is free and open to the public. For more info, see: www.chewwisconsin.com/
Further Reading: Got Veggies?: A Garden-Based Nutrition Education Curriculum https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/publications/p0/p00228.pdf
Nathan Kennard Larson (he/him) has worked in the fields of garden- and nature-based education for the past 25 years. He currently serves on the teaching faculty and as co-chair of Landscape and Urban Studies in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture at UW-Madison. His teaching practice and courses focus on community-based learning, school garden and outdoor classroom co-design, community food systems, and well-being in urban nature. He helped establish the Wisconsin School Garden Network and School Garden Support Organization Network, and is the author of Teaching in Nature’s Classroom: Principles of Garden-Based Education.
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Join us for CHEW meetings, which typically meet on the first Wednesday of each month (except August) at the Goodman Community Center (Ironworks Bldg.), 149 Waubesa, Madison, WI. Meetings are free and open to the public and feature invited speakers, lively discussions, sometimes food samplings and more. See below for info about our newsletter, membership, traveling library and more.
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CHEW Library – One of the benefits of in-person CHEW meetings is access to CHEW’s traveling library. Our collection totals almost 125 titles, ranging from James Beard award winner The Sioux’s Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen to the very drinkable Bottoms Up: A Toast to Wisconsin’s Historic Bars and Breweries. To peruse all the book titles in our library, click Culinary. You can put in an “order” for a specific book by emailing chewwisconsin@gmail.com. The book will be brought to the next in-person meeting (if it hasn’t already been checked out). Several titles will also be featured at each meeting–you’ll hear a short review and will have the opportunity to check one of the featured titles out for a month.
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