A checklist for Bay Area teachers If you teach in the Bay Area, you have a head start most of the country doesn’t: you can grow food outdoors almost all year. Fall is the best time to begin. The rains do some of your watering, cool-season crops are forgiving, and you’ll harvest before spring testingContinue reading “How to Start a School Garden”
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Inside Tree Gleaning: How Backyard Fruit Reaches Families in Need
Every fall, Bay Area backyards fill up with more fruit than any one family can eat. Lemons pile up on patios. Persimmons split on the branch. Apples drop and rot in the grass. Meanwhile, families a few streets away are stretching grocery budgets and going without fresh produce.Tree gleaning closes that gap. Here is howContinue reading “Inside Tree Gleaning: How Backyard Fruit Reaches Families in Need”
Build a Raspberry Pi Soil Moisture Monitor
A Beginner Project for Teens In one afternoon, you can build a sensor that tells you exactly when your plants need water, and prints it to your screen every few seconds.At Climate Roots, we grow food in community gardens and a student-built greenhouse. One lesson keeps coming up: plants don’t die from lack of care,Continue reading “Build a Raspberry Pi Soil Moisture Monitor”
Announcing the Seeds of Health Idea Challenge
Have an idea that uses food, gardens, or green spaces to help people live healthier lives? Climate Roots wants to fund it. Today we are launching the Seeds of Health Idea Challenge, a community competition for ideas that connect growing food with human health. The winning idea receives $1,000 in seed funding plus mentorship fromContinue reading “Announcing the Seeds of Health Idea Challenge”
Composting 101 for Families
Worm bin or backyard pile? A simple guide to picking the right compost setup for your family, inspired by what we learned at Fremont Earth Day. At the City of Fremont’s Earth Day, our team stopped by a booth that had kids and parents leaning in close: a bin full of worms turning kitchen scrapsContinue reading “Composting 101 for Families”
Designing With Nature—Not Against It
We’ve been told for decades that progress means mastering nature, outsmarting it, and building systems that override the natural world. But what if the real breakthrough isn’t in controlling nature—but in aligning with it? This isn’t just a philosophical shift. It’s a practical one. And it’s reshaping how we think about food, health, resilience, andContinue reading “Designing With Nature—Not Against It”
A new chapter
We’re writing with both heartfelt appreciation and thrilling anticipation as we share an important update: The Youth Leadership Council (YLC) of Climate Roots has officially dissolved. This isn’t an ending — it’s a transition — to Climate Roots School Chapters! Over the past few years, the YLC has been a vibrant engine of youth-driven climateContinue reading “A new chapter”
