News about the film "...And This Is My Garden". This documentary follows the teachers and their students from Mel Johnson School in Wabowden, Northern Manitoba, Canada, for a season of seeding, planting, harvesting and preserving, celebrating with a community feast. The film is directed & produced by Katharina Stieffenhoffer.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Education for Sustainability
Greening Our Schools — Transformative Education for Sustainability
Greening the curriculum means ensuring that students are capable of taking on the 21st century challenges of global warming and climate change (the most serious threat ever to face humanity), social inequities, unsustainable lifestyles, and the urgent need to switch to a renewable energy-based economy.The Value of School Gardens
School gardens are a wonderful way to use the schoolyard as a classroom, reconnect students with the natural world and the true source of their food, and teach them valuable gardening and agriculture concepts and skills that integrate with several subjects, such as math, science, art, health and physical education, and social studies, as well as several educational goals, including personal and social responsibility.
check out http://www.greenhearted.org/
Monday, March 21, 2011
Garden Organic, UK - Resources for Schools
http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/organicgardening/schools.php
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Thunder Bay Environmental Film Festival
"And This Is My Garden" @ Thunder Bay Environmental Film Festival
Thunder Bay, ON - Confederation College, April 2 - 1 p.m.
http://tbefilmf.wordpress.com/the-films/
Hearts & Minds Film Festival, Wilmington, DE
"And This Is My Garden" will screen @ Hearts & Minds Film Festival
http://www.heartsandmindsfilm.org/film.htm
Wilmington, DE, USA
Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts
April 1st - 5:15 p.m.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Screenings, Festivals, Awards
I help out with Katharina's website (she directed and produced this documentary) and tonight I was busy trying to update all the screenings and presentations that she and Eleanor are involved in, it is hard to keep up with all the activity. To name a few, screenings coming up in Dawson City, Yukon, Thunder Bay, Ontario, FortWhyte Alive - Winnipeg, Thompson, Manitoba, where Katharina and Eleanor are presenting together at the Northern Health Conference on March 17. And the film just won this award - Winner: Audience Award - Inspiring Lives - Princeton Environmental Film Festival.
I know its been pretty tough for Katharina to keep going through some of the post documentary production issues, however she rallies and continues to go out and teach about about gardening and sustainability and healthy food and young people getting involved in gardening, its what she is passionate about. And her own gardening skills are quite amazing. (she grew up farming and gardening with her family in Germany) Maybe she'll be posting some photos of her own gardens once the season comes around, which is soon.
So, if you haven't seen her film, and have an interest in any of the issues above, see if you can get to a screening. (there is my big promotion..) It is also a beautiful looking film.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Riverside School Garden, Princeton, NJ
during their "Healthy Children, Healthy Planet 2011" spring fair on, May 21, 2011
check out their wonderful Outdoor Classroom Teaching Garden
http://rs.prs.k12.nj.us/OutdoorClassroom
Winner: Audience Award - Inspiring Lives
"And This Is My Garden" Winner: Audience Award - Inspiring Lives
Princeton Environmental Film Festival
http://www.princeton.lib.nj.us/peff/
Congratulations Eleanor Woitowicz, Bonnie Monias & Mel Johnson School Gardeners!
Saturday, March 5, 2011
AND THIS IS MY GARDEN TO SCREEN AT FORTWHYTE ALIVE
If you're interested in learning more about FortWhyte Farms and sharing in the harvest this coming season, please attend this information session and tour. The session will be preceded and followed by a viewing of the documentary ...And This Is My Garden, which was produced in association with Buffalo Gal Pictures, about an innovative school gardening program in a northern Manitoba community.
Sunday, March 13th - 12 to 4 p.m.
12pm & 3pm: ...And This is My Garden showing in the Interpretive Centre
1pm: Community Supported Agriculture Presentation
2pm: Farm and Greenhouse Tour
Register at (204) 989-8355
FREE with regular admission
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
ATIMG screening in Whitehorse, Yukon
"And This Is My Garden"is screening on Thursday, March 3rd, in Whitehorse, Yukon, at the Potluck Co-op AGM - their common goal: "....eating more and more Yukon-grown organic food"