Join Us!
We love kids, and we love to garden. On
that . . . excuse the expression . . . common ground, we've organized www.KidsGardenClub.org. It's for
growing sprouts, and the ones who love to teach them with the endless lessons
of a garden!
If you subscribe, you will receive one
youth gardening lesson plan per week via email. Of course, you can come to this
website any time and get other ideas. Whatever it takes to get kids gardening,
we're all for! And it's all free.
The purpose is to serve the organizers of
youth gardens associated with schools, after-school programs, youth-serving
organizations, neighborhood associations, churches, ministries, community
gardens . . . anywhere there are children and youth interested in gardening,
and at least one gardener willing to lead.
Please
contact susan@kidsgardenclub.org
to add your group's name to the list!
Funded by After School
Treats, Inc., nonprofit 501(c)(3)
Omaha Area Kids' Garden Clubs:
TRI Community United Methodist Church
Kids Garden Club,
sponsored by After School Treats, Inc.
6001 Fontenelle Blvd.
susan@kidsgardenclub.org
Compass Ministries Kids Garden Club, 1723
N. 33rd St.
susan@kidsgardenclub.org
Abide Ministries Kids Garden Club, 3335
Fowler Ave.
susan@kidsgardenclub.org
Skyline Ranches Neighborhood Kids Garden
Club, 208th & Dodge
susan@kidsgardenclub.org
Elkhorn Valley View Middle School Kids
Garden Club,
a project of EV2 Cares Service
Learning Club
210th & Pacific Streets
susan@kidsgardenclub.org
Affiliated Kids' Garden Clubs:
CALIFORNIA:
Ian Smith
Assistant Program Director
Boys and Girls Club of San
Fernando Valley
11251 Glenoaks Boulevard
Pacoima, CA 91334
(818) 896-5261
Cindy Hernandez
Dewey Elementary Friendship
Garden Club
San Diego, CA
( 847) 800-2446
jcnc4jesus@hotmail.com
CONNECTICUT:
Kara S. Canney
Trumbull Library System
Children's Librarian
33 Quality Street
Trumbull, CT 06611
203-452-5197
203-452-5125-fax
kcanney@trumbull-ct.gov
KENTUCKY:
Addison and Tracey Chapman
599 Stringtown Rd.
Ekron, KY 40117
peace_love281@yahoo.com
Andrea Wright
School Gardens Coordinator
Jefferson County Public
Schools
Louisville, KY
andrea.wright@jefferson.kyschools.us
NEW JERSEY:
Stillman Garden Club
c/o Sharon
L. Hess, RNC, BSN, MA
Certified School Nurse
Walter Stillman Elementary School
75 Tenafly Road
Tenafly, NJ 07670
office (201) 816-7713
cell (201) 563-9617
shess@tenafly.k12.nj.us
OHIO:
Debbie Steward
Director of Compliance and
Finance
L. Hollingworth School for
Talented & Gifted
824 Sixth St.
Toledo, OH 43605
419.705.3411 Office
419720.4923 Fax
567.249.3723 Cell
WISCONSIN:
Wendy Penney
Many of the
lesson plans on this website are about nature, science and the environment.
They suggest ways to use plants as a theme for creative enrichment in reading,
writing, arithmetic and other school subjects. It's "complementary education"
at its finest - hands-on learning that's good for you and a whole lot of fun.
You can join in
by subscribing, and receive one lesson plan per week by email.
This is one of
those rare organizations that is set up only to serve you. There are no
membership fees, no meetings, nothing to do . . . other than to use this
information to help you make your students' gardening experience the best it
can be. And one way to do that is to network with other kids' garden clubs
through this site.
You can come to
the website any time to peruse the lesson plans and other information that's
posted on there. We'd love to receive articles and photos from you for the
Kids' Blog! So bookmark us, and tell your friends! Send us garden-related lesson
ideas, money-saving ideas, photos, tips and funny stories.
Happy gardening!
Susan Darst Williams,
organizer and writer,
Susan@KidsGardenClub.org
Creative enrichment
websites:
www.AfterSchoolTreats.com and
www.KidsGardenClub.org
A lifelong Omahan, Susan
is a writer, community volunteer
and garden educator for
the
suburban Skyline Ranches Neighborhood
Kids' Garden Club
and the inner city's Compass
Ministries, 1723 N. 33rd St.
Neecy Twinem, award-winning
author/illustrator,
has graciously allowed
the use of her garden art
for www.KidsGardenClub.org
She helped launch this
website
and kicked off gardening
season
with an Earth Day
appearances in Omaha
on garden art for
children
in April 2010.
Creator
of 26 books, Neecy is known for her rich,
brightly
colored artwork and simple text
which
invite readers to explore the natural world.
Her
newest adorably rendered toddler titles -
Hungry
Beasties, Sleepy Beasties, Playful
Beasties and Noisy Beasties -
are a
collection of kids' favorite animals in various themes.
Neecy
expresses her admiration for New Mexico
with
her vibrant illustrations in E is for Enchantment: A New Mexico Alphabet,
a WILLA
Literary Award recipient and nominated for
the
Land of Enchantment Book Award. Her other titles embracing the southwest
are: Baby
Coyote Counts, Baby Gecko's Colors and Baby Snake's
Shapes
(bilingual
and English board books).
Neecy
has illustrated for a variety of markets within children's books
including
book covers, educational books, classroom readers, and magazines.
Her art
can also be found on puzzles, posters, greeting cards, t-shirts,
public
murals and private collections.
Twinem
is a regular speaker at schools, conferences
and
literacy festivals across the country. She loves to share the process
of
creating books with children and adults. She gives presentations,
workshops,
and
artist-in-residence programs. Neecy has taught private art lessons
to
children and adults for seventeen years, both in New York and New Mexico.
Twinem
graduated with a fine arts degree
from the
San Francisco Art Institute,
and has
exhibited her artwork in the U.S. and Europe.
Her
fine art paintings are currently represented by POP Gallery in Santa Fe, NM.
Neecy
enjoys writing and painting in the inspiring natural surroundings
of her
home studio in the Sandia Mountains.
NEECY TWINEM
Author, Artist, Illustrator
Painted Sky Studio
1 Prado Vista, Sandia Park, NM 87047
505-281-0525 neecy@neecytwinem.com
Website with an on-line store:
www.neecytwinem.com
