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Old Tools for New Problems: Modifying Master Gardener Training to Improve Food Access in Rural Areas
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Randle, Anne – Journal of Extension, 2015
Extension faces ever-changing problems, which can be addressed by modifying successful tools rather than inventing new ones. The Master Gardener program has proven its effectiveness, but the cost and time commitment can make it inaccessible to rural, low-income communities, where training in home gardening may address issues of food access and…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Extension Education, Gardening, Educational Change
A STUDY OF THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS FOR WORKERS ENGAGED IN OCCUPATIONS IN OFF-FARM AGRICULTURAL BUSINESSES IN ALABAMA.
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BAKER, RICHARD A. – 1966
IN ORDER TO DETERMINE PREEMPLOYMENT EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS ENTERING NONPROFESSIONAL OFF-FARM AGRICULTURAL OCCUPATIONS, THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO IDENTIFY EMPLOYING FIRMS, EXISTING OCCUPATIONS, DESIRABLE CHARACTERISTICS OF BEGINNING EMPLOYEES, EMPLOYERS' FAMILIARITY WITH VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS, EMPLOYERS'…
Descriptors: Agricultural Skills, Cooperative Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs
The United States School Garden Army. Bulletin, 1919, No. 26
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Francis, J. H. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
The name of the United States School Garden Army was adopted in March, 1918. The work of the organization is an expansion of work undertaken by the Bureau of Education in 1914. The scale upon which it was done was limited by the finances that could be secured for it. The acute demand for food production growing out of the war conditions made…
Descriptors: Educational History, War, Educational Environment, School Activities