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[Katie K Young]

Columbus City Schools Farm to School Program provides each teacher with the Growing Teachers Throughout the Seasons guidebook. This guidebook walks classrooms through growing and harvesting 9 different plants during the school year. It included step by step directions, recipes, etc. I also send out a newsletter with reminders, updates, videos, etc to all teachers who have come to the training and received the growing supplies. 

It can be purchased through OSU extension: https://extensionpubs.osu.edu/growing-teachers-throughout-the-seasons/

Here is the link to the online modules: 

It can be purchased through OSU extension: https://extensionpubs.osu.edu/growing-teachers-throughout-the-seasons/

Here is the link to the online modules: https://farmtoschool.osu.edu/growing-teachers-throughout-the-seasons/

Katie Young  

Farm to School/Nutrition Coordinator K-12

Housed at Food Service Production Center 

450 East Fulton St.

Columbus, OH 43215

kyoun...@columbus.k12.oh.us

614-365-8897 (office) or 614-557-4997 (cell)

https://sites.google.com/columbus.k12.oh.us/ccs-farm-to-school?usp=sharing

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Planting calendars/ resources

Ullery, Sam (OSSE) <sam.u...@dc.gov>: Nov 07 07:47PM Hi All, We are currently updating our DC school garden planting calendar<https://osse.dc.gov/publication/dc-school-garden-planting-calendar> and want to also expand it to include additional resources to help educators have more success with planting, growing, and caring for their plants. I'm curious what type of guidance folks offer to educators to assist them with knowing when to plant, what to plant, how to plant, and WHY to plant. I'm especially interested in the why- for example do you have resources that make connections between specific activities/ lessons and specific plants.   Maybe you have list like this?   Plant (WHAT) Example Activities (WHY) Kale Kale activity Tomatoes Tomato activity Sweet Potatoes Sweet potato activity Sorrell Sorrell activity Milkweed Milkweed activity   Thanks!   Sam Ullery School Gardens Specialist Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE)

Erin Maidlow <er...@uvf2s.org>: Nov 07 12:46PM -0800 [image: PDF file] Planting Guide and Calendar.pdf <https://drive.google.com/file/d/18HRIJ7oTLFQUMCmDnXL_FZdVhtJEo6Sx> Here is ours. We also have additional pages to add so that teachers can use these year after year and look back at previous years to see what worked and what didn’t. [image: PDF file] Planting Guide and Calendar Extra… <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FAz9BJzxMdU0WJVxUZK8E0DP5x6Ap0Xe/view?usp=drivesdk>     On Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM Ullery, Sam (OSSE) <sam.u...@dc.gov> wrote:

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Knife Safety Resources

Whitney Cohen <whi...@lifelab.org>: Nov 07 12:42PM -0800 Here is a simple demo we do and a poster we reference when first introducing knives. Hope that’s helpful! Whitney   Whitney Cohen (pronoun: she <https://www.mypronouns.org/what-and-why>) Executive Director, Life Lab whi...@lifelab.org 831-200-9014   See how we’re changing the nature of education! <https://www.lifelab.org/2014/06/changing-education/>   “Remember to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot live without just as you dismantle the ones you cannot live within.” - Ruha Benjamin 

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