Plant Drop Off: 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Plant Sale Begins: 11:00 AM

General Meeting: 12:30 PM

Program / Speaker: 1:30 PM

For members only. Non members please pay $10 to attend as a guest, or $40 annual dues to become a member. For membership details, please email to GCLAmembership@gmail.com or come to our monthly meetings.

GCLA member, Dr. Dilafruz Williams, serves as a consultant with the Growing Gardens program at Santa Clara County Office of Education. With ~180 school gardens Gardens program at Santa Clara County Office of Education. With ~180 school gardens across the county, she also co-facilitates a Community of Practice for educators and partners. She will take us on a photo journey of county school gardens portraying hands-on engagement of preschool to high school students, where classroom learning is connected with gardens and fosters relationships with the natural world.

Formerly, Dr. Dilafruz Williams was a professor of Leadership for Sustainability Education at Portland State University where she co-founded a number of programs including the Learning Gardens Laboratory. A prolific scholar, she has presented workshops and keynotes nationally and internationally. She has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University. Her coauthored book on Learning Gardens includes innumerable real-life examples of students’ writings and projects, teacher and administrator stories, and pedagogical framework for garden-based education. Dilafruz herself delights in garden wonders.

For more information on Dr. Dilafruz Williams’s work, please visit:

https://www.sccoe.org/isteam/science/gardens/Documents/SCCOE_Growing%20Gardens%20Report_Jan%2015%20%281%29.pdf

Karen Kusanovich, Vice President & Program Chair