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Organic
Stuff for Kids
Hey, kids...check out these great sites...
- Edible Schoolyard
- in collaboration with Martin Luther King Junior Middle School,
provides urban public school students with a one-acre organic garden
and a kitchen classroom.
- Everdale
Environmental Learning Centre
- fostering a development of environmental literacy and environmental
stewardship, for children and young adults
- Kidsgardening
- "Helping young minds grow"
- Kids
have organic experience down on farm - Doctors' group give students
a taste of farm life - and fresh veggies
- Rodale
Institute's Kids and Families
- part of The Rodale Institute's® Youth Educational Program,
whose mission is "To empower children to make healthy choices
for the environment, and for themselves."
- Organic Trade Association's ORGANIC
FOR KIDS & THEIR PARENTS
- NatureWatch
- programs that encourage schools, community groups, individuals,
naturalists, backyard enthusiasts, Scouts and Guides to engage in
the monitoring of soil, air, water and other aspects of environmental
quality
- "There's
more to organic farming than being pesticide-free" by Patti
Wunsch.
- The article is accompanied by a teacher's
kit that can be used by school teachers and is available in
both official languages.
“Everything
is made from Earth because Earth came first”
Violette Barnard Drouin, age 6 |
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