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Welcome 5
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0-1: A Welcome Note from Victoria 30 minLecture1.1
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0-2: Good Things to Know 30 minLecture1.2
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0-3: Why Literacy Outdoors? 30 minLecture1.3
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0-4: Ideas to Kick Start Your Literacy Garden 30 minLecture1.4
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0-5: Supply List for Reading, Writing, Listening, and Talking Outdoors 30 minLecture1.5
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Module 1: Gardens that Feed 5
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1-1: Welcome to The Gardens that Feed 30 minLecture2.1
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1-2: Gather Seeds of Inspiration 30 minLecture2.2
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1-3: Plant Literacy Ideas 30 minLecture2.3
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1-4: Grow Literacy Activities 30 minLecture2.4
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1-5: Harvest Curriculum-on-the-Go Kits 30 minLecture2.5
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Module 2: Gardens Inspired by Themes 5
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2-1: Welcome to The Gardens Inspired by Themes 30 minLecture3.1
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2-2: Gather Seeds of Inspiration 30 minLecture3.2
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2-3: Plant Literacy Ideas 30 minLecture3.3
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2-4: Grow Literacy Activities 30 minLecture3.4
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2-5: Harvest Literacy Curriculum Kits 30 minLecture3.5
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Module 3: Gardens that Attract Wildlife 5
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3-1: Welcome The Gardens that Attract Wildlife 30 minLecture4.1
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3-2: Gather Seeds of Inspiration 30 minLecture4.2
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3-3: Plant Literacy Ideas 30 minLecture4.3
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3-4: Grow Literacy Activities 30 minLecture4.4
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3-5: Harvest Literacy Curriculum Kits 30 minLecture4.5
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Module 4: Gardens for Beauty and Art 5
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4-1: Welcome to The Gardens for Beauty and Art 30 minLecture5.1
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4-2: Gather Seeds of Inspiration 30 minLecture5.2
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4-3: Plant Ideas 30 minLecture5.3
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4-4: Grow Activities 30 minLecture5.4
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4-5: Harvest Curriculum Kits 30 minLecture5.5
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When I was a child, I enjoyed building little houses with sticks and stones, bark and blossoms, and whatever else lay at hand. my imagination was focused on small animals: mice and bunnies and kittens and such, which I anthropomorphized so extensively that even today I have a hard time letting go of the notion that they are all living very human-like lives just out of sight and earshot! These structures were largely stand alone; I didn’t really have a garden. As I mentioned earlier, my dad helped me plant a few flowers and vegetables (radishes are vegetables, right? lol) in a small bed along the side of our yard, for perhaps 3 or 4 years, and it is likely that some of my houses made their way into the garden, but it is more likely that they ended up in the overgrown yard of our mysterious, reclusive neighbor 2 houses down. (It turned out that she was a hoarder of the highest order, and was likely mentally ill, as she let the house slip into disrepair and chaos… but here’s a twist: I bought that house 12 years ago, rehabbed it, and live there now! Gardens are a problem, though. There were 11 full sized trees in the small yard of this house when I bought it, and even though most of them have been removed, you cannot sink a spade anywhere out there without hitting roots. )
Love these memories of you creating and playing with little houses in your garden. What a fun story to have bought your neighbor’s house 12 years ago. I get the root issue! Have you ever thought of creating a container garden using different size pots? I did this under a tree that was THICK with roots. I wanted to create a “Welcome Garden” but was challenged with tree roots. I finally discovered that I could use terracotta pots of all different sizes. I planted my flowers in them. It is beautiful and such a fun and simple solution.
I do have one garden in the tiny front yard that I reclaimed by removing a very large maple that was dying and kept dropping large limbs in my neighbor’s driveway (never actually hit her car, but it did take down her power lines once during a storm; it took days for it to be restored, and I felt the least I could do was run extension cords from my house to her house to keep her refrigerator and some lights going!). I had the stump ground down, so a lot of the roots also got ground up, and I have managed to get a perennial flower and herb bed going, this will be year 3 coming up. I’m waiting to see how much has survived this winter. I’ve been slowly accumulating materials to build some raised beds out back. And I have also had a big container garden on the sunny side of the house for several years, although I skipped it last summer because I was too stressed out to make time for it (despite knowing how working in a garden is one of the best de-stressers there is!) Reflected or ambient sunlight gives my tomatoes and peppers quite the boost over there!
Love learning your garden story!
We’ve made fairy houses before. Reactions were pretty mixed. Some of the children weren’t interested and others put lots of details into their fairy houses. Wondering how we could do it at school. We don’t really have a safe place to build them where they won’t be knocked over immediately. Maybe it would work if we brought paper to draw pictures of our houses and the camera and the children could photograph their own work.
So many different ways to make miniature gardens. I have seen programs create fairy houses on trays. I love the idea of drawing pictures and photographing their own work. Maybe even writing a story. Lot’s of possibilities. Just good to have the loose parts available for children to explore.
Snow day here! Curling up with a cup of coffee and my sketchbook while I do my lessons.
That sounds absolutely wonderful! You are going to LOVE this Module! The interview is amazing! Can’t wait to see your reflections. Enjoy the day home!