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Healthy Roots aims to increase children’s preferences for, and awareness of crops that can grow in school gardens, in their backyards at home, or at local Sonoma County farms.
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Cooking from the School Garden
Introducing Sue McQuiddy
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Sue McQuiddy is a seasoned Garden Educator in Sonoma County, starting in 2007 for schools in Windsor. Her passion has been garden to table education: providing students the experience of growing fruits and vegetables to harvest, taste, and confidently prepare tasty recipes - while they built a working knowledge of nutrients and healthy eating strategies. She considers her greatest successes the times when students discover they like a new fruit or vegetable, and when students or parents tell her that a Nutrition class recipe has become a family favorite. She strongly believes that school gardens are the natural place for students to apply classroom lessons to the real world environment.
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Sue championed school garden education for K-8th grade students at multiple schools by leading the expansion and creation of school gardens at three school sites, and engaging students and community stakeholders in the process. After 13 happy years teaching elementary school students how to grow and prepare their own food (learning right along side them!), she hung up her garden gloves this year and has turned her attention to sharing favorite school garden recipes and lessons for the school garden community to use and be inspired by.