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    A guide to help teachers visualize their edible education program.

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    Learn how to turn your farm into an edible classroom.

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    Discover how you can bring edible education into your community.

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    Beginner Lessons

    The Beginner Lessons form the foundation with a sound overview of the core concepts of food production.

    Intermediate Lessons

    The Intermediate Lessons allow students to experiment and prove the core concepts.

    Advanced Lessons

    The Advanced Lessons give students an opportunity to apply what they've learned in the previous levels.

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    Seed Starting Curriculum

    Soil Management Curriculum

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    Water Management Curriculum

    Seed Saving Curriculum

    Teaching Kitchen Curriculum

  • Blog

    Our Top Posts

    What is a Food Desert?

    Gain insight into food deserts, the communities they impact, and how edible education may offer a solution.

    The Difference Between Rainwater and Tap Water

    Not all water is created equal especially when we're talking about the health and development of plants and people.

    Why Rain is Important

    Rain or the lack of an adequate supply can have profound effects on farming and the communities that rely on the harvest.

    Anatomy of a Seed

    It all begins with a seed and this article dives deep into the 5 primary parts of the seed that make it all possible.

Modern Steader's Soil to Soil Blog

The Edible Learning Lab is an after school program that provides an immersive learning environment for students to explore the seed to table process. Our program goes well beyond farm to table with an intimate look at the deconstructed food production process that begins and ends with healthy soil.

If you would like more information about creating your own Edible Learning Lab, you might find this page helpful.

1 in 3 children are overweight

Why Changing the Conversation About Food Matters

Jul 24 by Dave Creech Leave a Comment

“In the long view, no nation is any healthier than its children or more prosperous than its farmers.” -President Harry Truman Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents in the past 30 years. Children and adolescents who are obese are more likely to be obese as adults and are therefore …Read More about Why Changing the Conversation About Food Matters

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Edible education web-based curriculum

From Paper to Pixels

Jul 19 by Tim Miner Leave a Comment

The Edible Learning Lab – all 274 lessons – are now online! More than 3 years ago, Dave and I sat around a campfire in Sedona painting the broad strokes of what would become the Edible Learning Lab and even then we dreamed of it being available online to teachers all over the world. We …Read More about From Paper to Pixels

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Crop Rotation Log

Jun 14 by Dave Creech Leave a Comment

Keeping track of your crop rotation plan is a good practice to get into. At Modern Steader we started tracking our crop rotation schedule with a simple Crop Rotation Log to allow us to plan ahead and work efficiently. You can download the PDF of the Crop Rotation Log and fill in the blanks or …Read More about Crop Rotation Log

Filed Under: Edible Learning Lab, Teach the Teacher Tagged With: crop rotation, Planting, planting your first garden, soil management

Pre-Sale: 2017 Edition of Edible Learning Lab Curriculum

Dec 24 by Tim Miner Leave a Comment

As you read this post, the Modern Steader Team is putting the finishing touches on the 2017 Edition of the Edible Learning Lab Curriculum.  The shiny new edition includes more than 200 new lessons making it easier than ever to bring edible education into your K-12 classroom. And so to ring in the new year, …Read More about Pre-Sale: 2017 Edition of Edible Learning Lab Curriculum

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Liz Cheney in the Edible Learning Lab

The Day a Congressional Hopeful Visited the ELL

May 12 by Tim Miner Leave a Comment

We’ve developed very big, perhaps even lofty, goals for Modern Steader and the Edible Learning Lab.  Dave and I have had a “go big or go home” mentality from the very beginning.  Our goal is to change food policies in schools.  It’s to change how people see and value food.  It’s to educate young people …Read More about The Day a Congressional Hopeful Visited the ELL

Filed Under: Edible Learning Lab Tagged With: Liz Cheney

Earth Day 2016

Edible Learning Lab | Happy Earth Day

Apr 22 by Dave Creech Leave a Comment

I woke up this morning and walked to the kitchen. I emptied my coffee grounds into the container where I store them for use in the garden and poured yesterday’s coffee into the garden planter where I grow most of our greens. Yesterday was very warm, and today will be as well so I made …Read More about Edible Learning Lab | Happy Earth Day

Filed Under: Edible Learning Lab, Steader Letters Tagged With: Earth Day, edible learning lab, Impact

Edible Learning Lab Curriculum

Introducing the Edible Learning Lab…

Dec 21 by Dave Creech 3 Comments

It may seem like it’s been quiet around here, but we’ve been very busy at Modern Steader. One of our goals has always been to package the knowledge and information we’ve been consuming in a way that makes it easy for the average beginner to understand. We’ve written blog posts, easy to follow guides, step-by-step …Read More about Introducing the Edible Learning Lab…

Filed Under: Edible Learning Lab Tagged With: after school program, agriculture based learning, boys and girls club, edible learning lab, teach the teacher

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