Watch This Video! Yvonne Savio on KTLA promotes Growing Veggies to Save Money

As you all know, we are planning on a rather intensive gardening program at Nora Sterry for the 2008-09 school year. This video features the Director of the Los Angeles UCCE Cooperative Master Gardener Program, Yvonne Savio, who is a mentor of all of us Master Gardeners, especially those of us who are diligently working to incorporate vegebtable and fruit gardens into every child's regular learning day.

Video on KTLA June 10, 2008

Malibu Foundation's 2008 Aerial Art! KIDS IN ACTION!

On June 6th, 2008 hundreds of students at Nora Sterry Elementary School (LAUSD) became part of history! Check out this picture and celebrate the heroes of our planet! Can you find yourself in the picture?

Thank you to our sponsors: Michael Klubock, Founder of Malibu Foundation, for the opportunity to participate in this global event! Thanks to Robin Smith at Recreational Transit Program for buses, and thanks to Councilman Rosendahl and his incredible staff for free buses and Marlene Canter's office, and her staff, for supporting this important project. To learn more, visit the Malibu Foundation website and the Migrating Human Whale Project.

Thank you to the California Coastal Commission and it's Educator's Resource Page.

Baby Lovebird Emerges From Nesting Box 1st Time!

An exciting day for the Lovebird Family! Mama Ella and Papa Izzie teach baby How To Get Out of it's Nest! These are the first pictures of this giant step!

On Saturday Baby will be adopted by our friends at BIRDS & MORE!

Watch online: "This Brave Nation"

If you'd like to be inspired and raise your awareness of the power of individuals making a difference, please watch these episodes of "THIS BRAVE NATION" , a seies of documentaries, and pass this along.

Inner Kids - Teaching With Love, Compassion and Mindfulness

I invite all Nora Sterry community members to join a great organization called Innerkids.

Some of my fellow teachers at Nora Sterry have already joined this group. It adds a great deal of power to our daily classroom practices.

You Are Invited! June 16th 3:30 pm Nora Sterry & Urban Farming Partnership with LAUSD's BEYOND THE BELL program

WHAT: We are planning on launching a pilot after school program at NORA STERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, LAUSD beginning in Sept. 08 and continuing through the school year.

OBJECTIVE OF PROJECT: To enhance existing BTB Program to enhance student awareness of, how to create and manage a GREEN SCHOOL CAMPUS.

HOW: Combine existing agencies and their resources and programs for rapid implementation of program without wasting time and energy reinventing the wheel.

AGENCIES INVOLVED: (URBAN FARMING , GARDEN SCHOOLS LAUSD, NETWORK FOR A HEALTHY CALIFORNIA, GROWING GREAT, CENTER FOR ECOLITERACY'S RE-THINKING SCHOOL LUNCH program, UC MASTER GARDENER PROGRAM with existing BEYOND THE BELL, LAUSD Program.


WHEN: June 16th, 3:30 pm at Nora Sterry School (Room 11)
1730 S. Corinth Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90025


Some agenda items to begin thinking about, and to add to:

1. How can we rapidly create an after-school program that benefits the students and their families by growing food on campus, managing the kitchen waste with comprehensive composting and worm bin management as well as schoolwide GREEN practices in terms of all systems.

2. Can we collaborate with Local Farmer's Market at Felicia Mayhood on Sundays so that the school can sell organically-produced veggies and fruits grown on campus?

3. Can we support the new approach to RE-THINKING SCHOOL LUNCH (Center for Ecoliteracy / Edible Schoolyard Model through this afterschool program?

4. What additional funding will this collaborative project involve? If funding is needed, where will we get it?