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Youth Gardening Weekly is a weekly blog about the planning, implementation, challenges and triumphs of starting a youth gardening program.
Currently we are blogging about a one-hour, after school garden club with middle-school students. We may add more contributors as time goes on.
We may blog occasionally about our other gardening, agriculture, and food-justice projects as they tend to overlap and intertwine.
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Lindsey and Lisa have both worked in youth gardening, and other youth programming prior to their appointment with the garden club. We run a campus-community garden and are students of EcoJustice Education program at a university in Michigan. We love art, food, and community!
We are also interested in changing education from an industrialized model to one that is responsive and responsible to the ecological communities in which we exist. We recognize the intersections of racism, sexism, classism, and other forms of oppression/domination as intricately tied to the ecological crises we face as residents of planet Earth. We are proponents of the combination of Place-Based and EcoJustice Education practices, as these two theory-based fields are in direct resistance to industrialized, anti-democratic models of schooling and living.
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For more information on these intersecting fields of study and practice, please visit the following web sites
The Center for EcoJustice Education
http://www.ecojusticeeducation.org/
The Promise of Place
http://www.promiseofplace.org/
The Center for Ecoliteracy
http://ecoliteracy.org/
Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit
http://glbd.org/
