Dear Friends -
A favorite part of our in-person workshops is connecting with each other while we work with our hands. You may find us breaking apart garlic cloves while learn about a seasonal rhthym on a farm, baking bread together and discussing how to describe what yeast really is, and wet felting in warm, soapy water while the smell of lanolin fills the room. We know it will be a while still until we can share these experiences, but in the meantime we invite you to join us April 9 at a Felted Flower workshop. The best part? If you don't have your own wool, we have plenty to share and will ship some to your door.
Hope to see you soon,
Vera Simon-Nobes
FBEN Coordinator
P.S. We're also excited to finally share our 2020 Year in Review! Take a look, and as always, we invite your feedback.
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Upcoming Workshops with FBEN |
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Worker Justice in the Food System
April 1, 15, 29 | 3-4:30 pm ET
In this three-part workshop, participants will critically reflect on questions of worker justice in the food system. Collectively, we will examine the true cost of our food and how we, as educators and consumers, can be more effective allies to food workers while engaging with our students in the classroom or on the farm. Photo: Vera L. Chang
Sold out - Email to be placed on waitlist
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Summer Camp Call
April 9, 2021 | 11 - 12 ET, 8-9 PT
(ongoing biweekly)
Join this informal space to hear what others are planning for the 2021 camp season and to share your thoughts and questions. Some weeks will have a guest presenter and others will be based on participant discussion. Hosted in partnership with Andrew Ziv of Eden Village Camp.
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Make a Felted Wool Flower!
April 9, 2021 | 4-5:30 pm ET 1-2:30 PT
Join Cat Parrish from Shelburne Farms to learn how to turn fluffy sheeps wool into colorful, felted flowers. As part of the process, you will also learn how to create felted balls - think precious felt ball garlands! Cat will also chat about how she creates a 2-hour family program around this activity, when Shelburne Farms is offering in-person programming, and participants can share their favorite sheep-to-felt projects, too!
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Conversation: Animal Welfare in Educational Farm Settings
April 28, 2021 | 3-4:15 pm ET, 12 - 1:15 PT
Animals are probably some of your best educators, so it's important to consider their wellbeing as you facilitate human-animal connections throughout the farm. Join FBEN and Suzanne Kapral, Director of Development and Marketing for Hillside Farms, a historic, non-profit educational dairy farm located in Pennsylvania as she shares questions that have come up while completing her masters degree in Animal Behavior / Animal Welfare at Penn Vet. Together, we'll explore whether guidelines for animal welfare in educational settings would be useful to you, how you currently bring animals into your educational work, how you maintain standards of animal welfare, what you do to ensure staff understand animal behaviors, and what tools you need so the animals' point of view can be central in your work.
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Job Alerts: Educators, Cheesemakers, Farm2Family Program Instructor |
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FoodCorps Applications Are Open |
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As a FoodCorps service member, you can help kids learn what healthy food is, care where it comes from, and eat it every day. FoodCorps recruits talented leaders for a year of full time paid public service building healthy school food environments in limited-resource communities. Apply now.
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Rooted in Justice Offers Grants for $20,000 - $25,000
“Rooted in Justice” a new funding program from the Cedar Tree Foundation, designed to help amplify youth voices and actions in the environmental, conservation and food movements by supporting community-based organizations and groups that specifically manage youth-led urban greening programs. Application deadline is 4/30/2021. Many thanks to Rebecca Lemos of RLOWorks for alerting us to this opportunity!
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Case Study: Deepening School to Farm Connections |
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After twenty years of connecting farms and schools, Vermont Food Education Every Day is sharing this project case study to help other school communities expand the traditional farm to school model by creating a robust, year-long framework to strengthen the relationship between local farms and schools.
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Summer Learning in Education for Sustainability |
What is Education for Sustainability? How do we, as educators, design and educate for a more just and sustainable world? How does our sense of place influence the sense of belonging amongst learners? This summer, reflect, learn, and collaborate online with a group of teacher colleagues from across the globe, as you dive deeply into these questions with Shelburne Farms professional learning programs! Together, take a close look at how our values, knowledge and action come together to create learning that makes a difference.
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- 4/7/21: Strengthening Equity & Inclusion in Garden Education
- 4/14/21: Program Assessment - Measuring & Sharing Impact
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Podcast Episode: 5
Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation podcast series that features the people who live, work, and teach in the world of agriculture. This episode is designed for students and others interested in building a career in ag and natural resources. Hear all about ALI (American Landscape Institute) and CCBC's Sustainable Horticulture program partnership that allows students to enter the field of sustainable horticulture with a supported & paid position/ apprenticeship in nursery and landscape. Martha Pindale describes how the program works and where to go in the Baltimore area to be inspired by the work of professional horticulturalists. It's spring! Get outside!
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Racial Equity Habit Building 2021 Challenge
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The 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge from Food Solutions New England is simple! You commit to deepening your understanding of, and willingness to confront, racism for twenty-one consecutive days in April of 2021. The Challenge will raise your awareness, change your understanding and shift the way you behave.
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