Description:
Are you working with an audience that includes military family members? This distance learning opportunity will develop your knowledge and skills to create a success garden-based learning experience that spreads the benefits of gardening to your target audience. Physical activity, fresh food and stress reduction are a few of the many well-being benefits of gardening. Gardening also helps people connect, can engage the whole family, strengthen youth-adult and family relationships, and reduce family food expenses. Register now. Space is limited to 30 students. Cost is $400. This distance learning course focuses on the foundations and benefits of garden-based learning, and provides the tools, resources, and collaborative support needed to plan, organize and develop a successful and sustainable gardening program that fits your organization’s needs. Using a logic model approach to program development, this course is perfect for educators, program staff, volunteers, volunteer coordinators or anyone wanting to develop a community garden, school garden, or garden-based learning program for youth, adults, or people with disabilities in their local community, school, Cooperative Extension, or afterschool program. For this time there will be a free concurrent weekly hour webinar/conference call on gardening with military family members. This will be offered to registered participants in this course exclusively. Our meet ups topics will emerge out of needs identified by those participating and may include highlighting benefits, opportunities and resources in garden-based learning of specific interest to educators engaging a military family member audience and opportunities for participants to share and discuss their questions, concerns and barriers engaging an audience including military family members. Register and find more details at http://hort.cals.cornell.edu/cals/hort/teaching/distance-learning/garden-programs.cfm