Nourish Curriculum, a Worldlink Initiative

WorldLink and the Center for Ecoliteracy have recently released the Nourish Middle School Curriculum Guide. This curriculum invites teachers and students to explore the thought-provoking question: "What's the story of our food?"

"The goal of this curriculum is to actively engage middle school students in a meaningful conversation about food and food systems. The activities give students opportunities to reflect on current food practices, to explore more sustainable ones, and to link their learning to relevant action". -from Nourish Book.

Download the Free Nourish Curriculum at: http://nourishlife.org/curriculum/Nourish_Curriculum_Guide.pdf

additional media and education tools.

This document is complemented with a DVD video and

Training Community

This last, Nov. 10th, it was held a training worshop at Escuela Central de Guapiles, winner of the first place of the environmental contest "Solutions for my Planet". More than 30 children were involved joined with teachers and community members that collaborated to the establishment of the demonstrative systems installed at the school. Everybody that passes around the place got interested on the systems.

Interesting Readings

These are some websites with so interesting information about Urban Agriculture, we invite you to take a look to them:

• Rainwater Harvesting 101
• Guide to Setting Up Your Own Edible Rooftop Garden
• Edible Landscapes Worldwide

All these documents can be downloaded from the links under resources section of the blog.

The next links contain designs made by Carrot City, combining architecture with food production:

Visit of EARTH Officers

From left to right: Mr. Christopher Blackwell, founder of Independent Record Company Island Records; Miss Johanny Pérez, SUAGS Coordinator; Mr. Mark Ohrstrom, President of EARTH University Directive Council and Mrs. Mary-Elizabeth Gifford, Jurlique Creative Director and Vice President for Global Brand Communications.

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This  tuesday, november 2nd, the Sustainable Urban Ag Systems Station had the honor of receiving some special EARTH officers. Miss Pérez had the opportunity to present them all the Ag modules already installed in the demonstrative station at EARTH. Whole SUAGS team do greatly appreciate the encouragement given by the visitors and the kind support of Mr. Ohrstrom who is sponsoring the printing of graphic material to teach these sustainable systems among rural communities around EARTH University campus in Costa Rica.