Shop at any Jimbo's location on
Saturday, October 18th to get delicious organic food and help Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center!
Get 5% off your entire purchase or give your discount to Olivewood Gardens. Plus, Jimbo's will donate 5% of the entire day's sales to Olivewood Gardens.
Good at all five Jimbo's locations Countywide.
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Smiling students from Mr. Perez's 4th grade class explore the Corn TeePee |
Halloween Haunted Garden
3 Spooky Opportunities
1. Visit the garden on Halloween Night between 5pm and 8pm.
2. Help us collect toys and healthy treats to give away.
3. Volunteer to help set-up, haunt (no previous undead experience required) or clean-up our terrifying garden trail.
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Teachers learn to plant seeds during the Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden Training Academy (Learn More) |
This Fall, Harvest Health!
Olivewood Gardens offers Farmers' Market Boxes from Specialty Produce! The box ($20) includes a weekly selection of fresh California-grown fruits and vegetables.
Specialty Produce donates $2 of every purchase to the Olivewood Gardens program fund. To learn more or enroll, contact Kati Christensen.
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Specialty Produce
Farmers' Market Box contents
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Recipe of the Week:
Guajillo Vinegar Pickles
Created by Chef Chad White
Ingredients
� Tablespoon pickling spice
� Tablespoon whole mustard seed
2 Tablespoons salt
2 quarts water
1 quart vinegar
4 Tablespoons sugar
6 dried guajillo chiles
5 carrots, thinly sliced
2 red onions, thinly sliced
6 jalape�os, thinly sliced
Directions
Add all ingredients (except carrots, onions and jalape�os) to a pot and bring to a boil. Once boiling, pour over the carrots, onions, and jalape�os and let cool to room temperature. Once the mixture has cooled to room temperature, store in refrigerator up to 3 months.
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Jack Johnson poses for a photo at the Olivewood info booth before his 8/30 concert. The Johnson Ohana Foundation has already donated $2,500 to Olivewood this year. |
Executive Director
(619) 434-4281
2525 N Avenue
National City, CA 91950
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Board of Directors
- Chair: Mary L. Walshok, Ph.D
- Vice Chair: Dennis Doyle, Ph.D.
- Treasurer: Richard L. Romney
- Secretary: Jacqueline Reynoso
- Cathe Burnham
- Irma Gigli, M.D.
- Eleanor Navarra
- Trish Watlington
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Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center was created by the to further it's vision of assuring healthy communities and healthy economies in the cross-border region. |
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Happy Anniversary Starlite!
Olivewood supporter Starlite San Diego is celebrating it's 7th Anniversary this Sunday, October 5th.
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Saturday, October 25th, 10am-1:30pm
You're invited to a FREE community event for the whole family!
- Make delicious healthy recipes
- Plant your own seeds to take home
- Play loter�a
- Make succulent art
- And more! (activities end at 1pm)
At 1pm: Join County Supervisor Greg Cox and other special guests as we celebrate Olivewood's designation as a Live Well San Diego Partner.
Getting There: Participants are encouraged to walk, bike ride, or carpool. Parking is available at Toys 'R' Us (1100 E. 30th St, National City, CA 91950), a 10 minute walk from Olivewood.
Register Online: Olivewoodgardens.org/Happy-Healthy-Harvest/registration-form
Happy Healthy Harvest is a celebration of International Food Day and Border Binational Health Week. It it presented in partnership with:
      
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What We're Up To
September and October
September:
Olivewood hosted 11 field trips from Olivewood Elementary School, Lincoln Acres School, San Ysidro Health Center, and Warren Walker Elementary School.
Meanwhile, adult students in our Cooking for Salud! program celebrated their graduation on 9/18. VIP guests included National City Mayor Ron Morrison, and Vice Mayor Luis Natividad.
Additional garden visitors included students from the Southwestern College Landscape & Nursery Technology department, families attending our first-ever FOOD and FARM Family Fun Day and educators participating in our Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden all-day training academy.
Olivewood also added five more interns to our roster in September, bringing the current total to eight. Welcome aboard Sara, Erick, Annie, Daisy, and Corey!
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The Fall 2014 graduating class of Kitchenistas
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- 5th graders from National School District will start their final year at Olivewood! Students will learn about the greenhouse and winter gardening, plant seeds in trays (the resulting seedlings will be planted on their next visit), cook Happy Rice, and experience our brand-new recycling and resource use lesson.
- Olivewood will be designated a Live Well San Diego partner and celebrate International Food Day and Border Binational health week at the Happy Healthy Harvest on 10/25.
- Our Halloween Haunted Garden will provide a spooky, safe, and healthy Halloween experience to over 700 visitors!
- We will host: a follow-up Cooking for Salud! lesson, a Volunteer Orientation (10/8), and free Deep Yoga classes (Thurs @5).
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FOOD and FARM Family Fun Day
Saturday, November 22
Learn together, cook together, grow together!
Join us for a family field trip!
Take a family outing to beautiful Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center to explore the connections between food, health, and a healthy planet. Participate in hands-on cooking, gardening, and educational activities as a family.
Start the conversation- where does your food come from, and what makes a food healthy? See the whole "farm to table" process unfold before you.
Who: Families with children ages 3+
When: Saturday, 11/22; 10am-12pm
Where: Olivewood Gardens & Learning Center
2525 N Avenue, National City, CA 91950
Cost: $15/person
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Teacher's Toolbox: School Garden Training at Olivewood
2014-2015 Training Academies Sponsored by Jimbo's...Naturally!
During the past school year, 61 teachers, parent volunteers, administrators, and garden education professionals attended school garden Training Academies at Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center. Course participants represented thirty-one public schools from nine school districts, five private schools, and three non-profits. The resources, knowledge, and strategies provided to each group have the potential to influence up to 20,000 children.
A wide body of research supports the positive impact that gardens have on students' dietary choices, environmental awareness, and academic achievement. Many California schools have made a significant investment in the construction of school gardens. With new teachers and parents entering the school system every year, learning opportunities for educators and volunteers are essential to the effective use and sustainability of school gardens.
These day-long workshops fill a critical need for well-trained school garden educators who can deliver high quality garden-based experiential education to K-12 students. We are excited to offer these training academies again this year thanks to the support of Jimbo's Naturally!, through funds raised from the Customer Appreciation Sale on October 18th. Please show your support for your favorite teacher by shopping at Jimbo's on October 18th, and invite your local school to participate in an upcoming training academy.
Next Training Academy: Garden Enhanced Nutrition Education
Date: Friday, November 14th
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Cooking for Salud!
Changing Lives through
Cooking and Friendship
Cooking for Salud! was designed by Chef Educator Kati Christensen as an intensive parent education program that empowers families to take charge of their home kitchens. This unique seven week series builds confidence and skills to help students prepare healthy meals at home. Participants learn side by side from guest chefs, nutrition experts, and each other as they share their knowledge about food, cooking, home gardening, and nutrition. Class sizes are limited to 15 participants, encouraging each group to bond and students to provide each other with the support necessary to make lasting changes in their homes and in the community. Thanks to our generous donors, we are able to offer the program free of charge for families who otherwise could not participate.
We are pleased to report that during the last year we graduated 28 Kitchenista/os from the Cooking for Salud! course. The impact of the program has been felt immediately. 100% of our Kitchenista/os, have reported that they have made changes in their cooking at home. Changes include: increased consumption of fruits and vegetables, decreased consumption of sugary drinks, and reduced dependence on pasta, meat, white rice, potatoes, and fried food to create meals. These strategies and others have given graduates the confidence to alter recipes and create their own healthy dishes for their families.
After graduating, Kitchenistas/os become part of a growing family of local health advocates based out of Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center. We now have nearly 60 Kitchenistas who are actively working to educate others and continue improving the health of the community. They participate in monthly meetings hosted by Olivewood Gardens, where they continue to learn about health-related topics, explore community resources, and plan relevant action-items to share information or advocate for change. The Kitchenista/os group is led by Olivewood superstar volunteer Patty Corona-Morales.
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