Concerns

• Concerned that the mulch that came has plastic and glass contaminants

• VSB cannot use curbside organics compost

• Liability is not really an issue

  • There are allergy checks at the beginning of the year

  • Make a form saying we will be eating plants

 

General Gardening Education proposals 

• Incorporate the history of food and the other plants as a pathway

• Get labels and signs to say where the plants are from to spark curiosity and connection with student’s own ancestry and cultural background

• Teachers must get students outside in June and September for harvesting

• Tie in indigenous people’s way of life and how they use these foods and medicines

• Have students out with the plants a lot to build a connection

• Develop a seed bank and trade seeds from house to house and school to school

• Can gift nodding onions and crab apple jelly to Musqueam

• Make the outdoors a classroom

• ID all plants at the school (including trees) and where they come from to create lessons (teaching opportunities) from

  • Have students ask the plants: Who are you? Where do you come from?

  • Then have students look up if it is edible or medicinal

  • ID apps: Vancouver trees app, iBird, plantsnap

• They would love it if the students recognized that a fellow student wasn’t feeling good, then they go to medicinal garden

• Lori wants to make people less afraid of plants and the natural world. She thinks many things are unlikely to harm. She wants to create a connection between the students and the environment.

  • Have students learn sounds, stand outside. Ask: what do you hear.

Can incorporate sex education with pollination