Wood Fired Garden Education

[Alex Bereda]

Hi All,

Explore Ecology is partnering with Santa Barbara Unified on Farm to Toast, a California Grown Grant from the CA Dept of Education. It is a year long study of wheat production and bread making culminating with a visit from our new wood fired oven! Students will make garden fresh flatbread! 

We are starting to plan curriculum for the year and know it is important to not reinvent the wheel. We are looking for curriculum resources in the following topics:

The history of cooking with fire

Growing wheat

Bread making and fermentation

Protein and gluten

Preserving food and canning

Thanks all!

peace-alex

[Natalie McKinney]

Aloha Alex,

Do you want me to put this out to the National Farm to Schools list serve?

Let me know if that would be helpful.

Aloha,

Natalie

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[Whitney Cohen]

Hi Alex,

The lesson "Processed or Not" in Life Lab's The Growing Classroom includes a lesson on wheat and bread-making. And I love the book Bread, Bread, Bread. 

Hope that's helpful!

Whitney

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[Steve Crider]

The Bread Lab here in Washington State is doing excellent work.  Dr. Steve Jones & Team.  Staff member Kim Binzewski has published a children’s book called “The Bread Lab”, geared for 4th grade and up, with “how to” sourdough whole wheat bread instructions (published by Readers to Eaters).  In addition Fall planted winter wheat and barley make a great addition to our school gardens here in the PNW.  A lot of room to develop more STEAM related curriculum around grain!

Steve Crider

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[Tamara Helfer]

Hi Alex,

Not sure how science-y you want to go with this so this may or may not be helpful. But years ago, I used to do a "Kingdom Fungi" station (as part of a broader science lesson on microorganisms for 4th graders) where we would proof yeast, and the kids always really enjoyed this. I’m attaching a few slides that I would print on card stock to go with the stations, which were self-directed. (I provided warm water using a hotpot.) In addition to the yeast, I had portobello mushrooms cut in half as well as something moldy (from the back of the fridge, haha) encased in plastic for them to examine as part of the fungi station.

It’s eye-opening to students (and most adults!) that yeasts/fungi are alive, but they are not plants and they are not animals. (To put into context, we also learned about the other kingdoms, and learned that protists and bacteria are also different from plants and animals.)

Have fun!

Tamara

[Pamela Flory]

HI Alex.  We collect our own local yeast to make our local sourdough.  We do this by putting out a "trap"...water and flower.  We stir and feed throughout the week and end up with our school starter.  We follow this up by baking bread.  Many lessons involved....math, science, language arts.  This has been a third grade project for us.

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[Greg Ellis]

Congrats, Alex!  

We are looking at Sage Garden Project curriculum lately--there are a few bread lessons that are grade specific in there--let me know if you already have their curriculum (maybe some of your gardens have received their grants), or I can ask if we can share what we have.

We got some really cool varieties of heirloom wheat from our local Seed Savers Exchange group.

Greg

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On Wednesday, July 31, 2019 at 11:07:47 AM UTC-7, Pamela Flory wrote:

HI Alex.  We collect our own local yeast to make our local sourdough.  We do this by putting out a "trap"...water and flower.  We stir and feed throughout the week and end up with our school starter.  We follow this up by baking bread.  Many lessons involved....math, science, language arts.  This has been a third grade project for us.

On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 5:04 PM Alex Bereda <al...@exploreecology.org> wrote:

Hi All,

Explore Ecology is partnering with Santa Barbara Unified on Farm to Toast, a California Grown Grant from the CA Dept of Education. It is a year long study of wheat production and bread making culminating with a visit from our new wood fired oven! Students will make garden fresh flatbread! 

We are starting to plan curriculum for the year and know it is important to not reinvent the wheel. We are looking for curriculum resources in the following topics:

The history of cooking with fire

Growing wheat

Bread making and fermentation

Protein and gluten

Preserving food and canning

Thanks all!

peace-alex

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