Gardens to Gardens Fundraising Campaign

Oct 7

When:	October 7, 2010 at 1:00am to March 1, 2011 at 1:00am
Where:	Schools Across the Nation map 12 W. 22nd St Bayonne, NJ 07002
Contact:	[email protected]

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Campaign Details

What is Rock 'n Renew?

Rock 'n Renew is a non-profit orgnaization that helps musicians, students, businesses artists and their communities live and act in sustainable ways. Recognizing the connection between the health of culture and the health of the planet, we use art and music to generate excitement about green solutions as we connect learning to action. Every Rock ‘n Renew project helps to educate while providing real-life solutions to help repair our food system and ecosystem. Rock ‘n Renew also helps students and their communites to become healthier through our nutrition, cooking and wellness workshops. With a network of mentors and professionals who also have commited to sustainability, Rock ‘n Renew is also able to provide green-job training and mentoring to the communities we serve.Want to learn more?

Check out this video to find out what Rock 'n Renew is all about.

What is Gardens to Gardens?

Rock 'n Renew's Gardens to gardens Campaign aims to engage hundreds of US schools in a project that combines water restoration with fruit and vegetable gardens that help students to better understand their local food system and ecosystem. As part of the project students will take part in collaborative fundraising to help other schools afford gardens as well.

Rock 'n Renew students are tapping the power of new social fundraising and mobil startup technologies to raise awareness and much-needed funds. Founder of Rock 'n Renew and professional musician, Jonny Dubowsky, is jazzed about launching the tripod partnership between between Rock 'n Renew, StayClassy, and Antengo and reinventing the local fundraising model.

"If you have a phone in your pocket, you are really carrying around an amplifier as well. Through our social networks, we have the power to amplify our ideas through applications such as Foursquare, Facebook, Twitter, Antengo, and StayClassy," says Dubowsky.

Learn. Explore. Act

The curriculum section provides over one hundred garden based lessons to create, expand, and sustain garden based learning experiences. It offers practical idea and resources for every level of garden based learning from sprouting seeds to understanding the food system.

This curriculum section was compiled by the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources Garden-Based Learning Workgroup. The content for this section was borrowed, with permission, from various resources. The section is divided into 12 theme areas with applications for primary and upper grade level students:

Getting to know your garden- Garden basics
Digging in- soil, weather, and seasons
Seeds and Planting- propagation, germination, transplanting
The Growing Plant- botany, reproduction, pollination, and life cycles
Garden Habitat- critters, beneficial insects and pest control
Garden Stewardship- watering, weeding, erosion, and crop maintenance.
Harvest- see saving, food storage and processing
Composting- recycling, organic gardening, and soil amendment
From Farm to Table- food systems at work
Gifts from the Earth- plant based crafts
Cooking and Eating for Healthy Living- eat well for nutrition
Food Around the World- origins, history, and cultural uses of foods

How You Can Get Involved

Create Or Join A Team
Select a Project
Host A Fundraising Event
Create A Project for Earthday 2011
Communicate With Other Students
Share Your Story
Invite Your Community

Artists Speak Out on Rock 'n Renew

“If the people who are making the most money from fossil-fuel-involved-products were able to make a transition, and lead the way into alternative fuel, this would be the greatest message any company could make about the future of our planet. I think it's great that you are doing this.”––Debbie Harry (Blondie)

“Anything you can do to help the environment is a must, the littlest things count.”––Jody Porter (Fountains Of Wayne)

“We can’t just take this energy and throw it away after we’re done with it, we can’t just live for the now, we need to be aware of the impact we are having on our future.” ––Art Alexakis (Everclear)

“If I had been better educated on environmental issues, if we all were better educated, I don't think we’d be in the horrible state that we're in.” ––Chantal (Morningwood)

“It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat, a Republican, or a liberal or a conservative, it's not a political issue at all, it’s a human issue.” ––Kal Penn (Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, Van Wilder)