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Ideas for School Garden Curriculum in Ghana?

R.J. Steinert's picture
Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 1:30pm
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Hi folks, I'm CTO of the nonprofit Open Learning Exchange, we're doing a pilot of our School BeLL technology in 20 schools in Ghana this year and we're hoping to put together some resources for schools on building school gardens. Does anyone know of any open source curriculum for school gardens or any garden designs that would work well in Ghana? Would anyone be interested in helping to develop that curriculum if we can't find any good existing materials?

-R.J. Steinert

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Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 1:33pm

You can read more about Open Learning Exchange's program in Ghana here -> http://www.ole.org/content/ole-ghana-receives-usaid-%E2%80%9Call-children-reading%E2%80%9D-grant-award

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Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 6:04pm

Melissa Mastrianni brought up Keyhole Gardens and the following video from Send A Cow. For our deployment in Ghana we'll need to find a good Creative Commons licensed instructional video (maybe that one) and some written documentation. This could make a good Farm Hack Tool!

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Submitted by Jeff Piestrak on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 9:45am

Hi R.J., OLE's work is fascinating to me -hope to learn more! You can find a wealth of curriculum resources on my Food Systems reference guide here http://guides.library.cornell.edu/content.php?pid=84833&sid=631485#2080119 . You might find useful resources scattered throughout the guide elsewhere too.

Cheers, Jeff

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Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Fri, 01/04/2013 - 4:39pm

Thanks Jeff, that's quite a wealth of information! If you want to follow my work at OLE you can follow my development blog at http://bell-dev.blogspot.com/ and OLE news at http://www.ole.org/news.