If you haven't already, take 3 minutes to view the great video of San Joaquin FARMS' trip to Calaveras Big Trees!
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Farm on Putah Creek
Sunday, September 20 at 2:00pm
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Center for Land-Based Learning SLEWS program worked with Christian Brothers High School students on a very cool technique for streambank stabilization. The NRCS "bioengineering" practice involves installing willow bundles that will act as living structures to protect the bank from erosion while also providing wildlife habitat! Check out the link to our field day report and photos!
Center for Land-Based Learning had a great day last week with students from Esparto High School at the McCloskey project! We installed irrigation, collected mulefat and cottonwood cuttings, and learned some interesting things about these plants we did not know before...
Center for Land-Based Learning Fresno FARMS students spent a day along the San Joaquin River at Scout Island participating in ROPES challenge course activities. They learned teambuilding and leadership skills as well as personally challenging themselves on the climbing wall, zip line and cargo net.
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Students
from Delta Vista Acadedmy in Stockton spend the day yesterday using GPS
to map their site! Check out the field day report from our day!
Center for Land-Based Learning Today's Peregrine School preschool group coming to the Farm cancelled...it's pretty rainy and cold...but the Jr. High students from Winters (the new Winters RISE after school program) are still coming this afternoon to make worm boxes in the barn! Yay for the barn!
Center for Land-Based Learning Sacramento Valley FARMS students visited the UC Davis Student Farm yesterday (we love the Farm!) and started planning their Community Action Projects. Next field day is "A Day in the Life of a California Farmworker" in December.
Center for Land-Based Learning Hello fans - please vote for CLBL on this CHASE Community Giving program! It looks like you can vote up to 20 times each :-)
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Center for Land-Based Learning Yet another article on the jobs available in agriculture - this one by the Associated Press - and the numbers of students going to ag schools because of their interest in biology and the environment. This is what CLBL programs are all about!
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Tristesse Jones will probably never drive a tractor or guide a combine through rows of soybeans at harvest time.
Center for Land-Based Learning Heading to Vallejo to seed native grass at Hann's Park with Jesse Bethel HS kids. The area they'll be seeding was burned by an arson fire and needs some erosion control and native habitat enhancement.
Center for Land-Based Learning San Joaquin FARMS students had a great time camping in the Sierra! Check out this video of the trip!
Center for Land-Based Learning Rodriguez High School SLEWS students saw SOOOO many cool birds today on their hike at Lynch Canyon! Golden Eagles, Ferruginous Hawk, White-tailed Kites, Burrowing Owl, Red-tailed Hawks, Great Blue Heron, and more!
Center for Land-Based Learning Northstate FARMS went to Full Belly Farmin Guinda for our first field day! We all had a great time - take a look at the photos!
Center for Land-Based Learning staff are getting ready for a full week-- SLEWS tomorrow with Davis Senior HS, SLEWS Thurs with Rodriguez HS (Fairfield), Orange County FARMS tomorrow and Fri, SLEWS Mon with Jesse Bethel HS (Vallejo), and 6 more field days next Tues-Fri around the state!
Center for Land-Based Learning Founder and President Craig McNamara discusses CLBL and what it means to his life on last Friday's California Report on NPR
Source: www.californiareport.org
The California Report provides daily coverage of issues, trends, and public policy decisions affecting California and its diverse population.
Center for Land-Based Learning just enjoyed watching the 12 short videos of the Sierra Valley Digital Storytelling Project - local farmers and ranchers telling their story about local traditions, sustainability, and conservation and stewardship of natural resources.
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