Time to peel away the layers and re-know your onions!

Join Anne and Mary Jo again as they talk through all things onions and why your students will be crying if you don’t plant this awesome vegetable in your school garden this season.
Podcast outline:

2:50 - Why grow onions?

3:33 - What part of the onion do we eat?

4:24 - Onion Family

4:43 - Planting onions

5:30 - How do onions grow

6:40 - Where to buy onion slips and sets

7:28 - How to plant onions and connections to the classroom

9:00 - Book Connection - ⁠Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens ⁠

10:23 - Caring for your onions as they grow

11:10 - Watering

12:46- Signs of growth

13:15 - Bolting, going to seed or putting up a flower

15:40 - Harvesting

19:46 - Funny story

22:11 - Kid question: Why do onions make you cry?

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Another helping of potatoes, anyone? We’re digging back into The Potato Episode! Yep, it’s that time of year again—so get ready to plan and plant this student favorite. Your school gardens are about to get spud-tacular!

Chapters:

Encore Episode Introduction - 0:50

Why Should We Grow Potatoes in Schools? - 3:14

Connections to Curriculum - 4:38

Potatoes are a Hungry Crop - 6:52

DIfferent Varieties of Potatoes - 7:52

True Potato Seed or Seed Potatoes - 9:42

Buying the Right Kind of Seed Potato - 11:00

Chitting or Sprouting Seed Potatoes - 11:51

Cutting Seed Potatoes - 14:43

Where to Plant Potatoes - 16:24

Hilling, Banking or Earthing Up Potato Plants - 18:12

Harvesting Potatoes: 20:32

Finding the Mother Tuber - 24:24

Top Tips for Growing Success -25:15

Have a Potato Party! - 27:02

Growing Potatoes with a Class of Kids - 29:00

Caution and Safety Notes: 29:43

Kid Question: What is the difference between Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes: 31:17

Ending

Mentioned Books or Materials

The Enormous Potato - Aubrey Davies purchase ⁠here⁠

Recommended Fabric Growbags purchase ⁠here⁠

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Pesto grilled cheese, anyone?
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Chef Vahista Ussery joins today’s conversation to share her passion for all things food in the world of children’s nutrition education. Grab a plate and a napkin as we dig into the Shovels and Whisks After School Cooking and Gardening Club, which she runs alongside our very own Anne Santana! Bon Appetit!

00:42 - Intro and Vahista’s Journey

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05:49 - The Origin Story of Shovels and Whisks After School Cooking and Garden Club

09:57 - How to Organize a Cooking Club

11:08 - The Cooking Sessions at Shovels and Whisks After School Club

17:44 - State of Child Nutrition

22:09 - Navigating the Healthy Eating Conversation

27:36 - Favorite Recipes

31:49 - Tips and Tricks

Grants Opportunities - Sprouts Healthy Community Foundation - School Gardens

Links to recipes mentioned in the episode here

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