Extension Service Site Publications

• (2024) Growing Gardens Summit: Part 2 Join Rick "on assignment" as he travels to the Growing School Gardens Summit, in San Diego California. Rick interviews a dozen people with amazing stories. This is part TWO of a four-part series.
• (2024) Growing School Gardens Summit Part 1 Join Rick "on assignment" as he travels to the Growing School Gardens Summit, in San Diego California. Rick interviews a dozen people with amazing stories. This is part one of a four-part series.
• (2024) Not all Schools Have Walls: A visit With North Country School, Lake Placid NY Join Michelle and Rick as they interview Todd Ormiston, the Executive Director for North Country School in Lake Placid NY. Todd shares the strategies, challenges and philosophies for farm-based education at their school.
  
• (2024) Bringing Learning to Life In the School Garden: Special Guest John Fisher Join us as we interview John Fisher, from Life Lab in Santa Cruz County, California. John has dedicated his life to bringing school gardens to the forefront in the USA, and has been a main architect in the school garden movement.
• (2023) Everything happens for a reason: Michelle interviews her co-host Rick Sherman From his humble beginnings as a Dockboy and competitive distance runner, to earning an ED degree and finding his dream job as a State Agency Farm to School Analyst, listen as Michelle interviews her co-host, Rick Sherman.
• (2023) Teeny School? No Kitchen? No problem! Find out how Lua Siegel transformed a very rural charter school into an edible landscape. Join Rick and Michelle as they interview Lua Siegel, a School Garden Coordinator with very unique challenges.
• (2023) Creating a State Farm to School Movement: Michelle Markesteyn Join us as Rick interviews his co-host, Michelle Markesteyn on how she got her start introducing Farm to School to Oregon. Not only did she do that, but she's reinvented herself many times over in order to create new positions that she's served in over the years in order to better serve the Farm to School community.
• (2023) Starting a National Farm to School Movement: Anupama Joshi Join us as we interview Anupama Joshi, the founder of the National Farm to School Network as she details how this movement started.
• (2023) School Garden Sustainability: Kelly Douglas Join us as we interview a School Garden Coordinator who transformed a high school in an underserved community by raising $30,000 to not only establish a garden, but create a garden club that had 75% of the student body participate in it! Kelly will share details of how she won a prestigious award for this work, as well as lessons learned when it all went away!
• (2023) What is Farm to School? In this episode, Rick and Michelle explore what the term "Farm to School" means.
• (2023) Farm to School in Remote Areas; Rikkilyn Starliper Learn about farm to school in a remote "frontieresque" community, a possessed greenhouse, and more with Nutrition Services Director Rikkilyn Starliper of Umatilla School District in Eastern Oregon.
• (2023) Rootopia Rootopia is about cultivating connections and the transformative magic of growing and cooking together. Rootopia works to make it easy to raise healthy, engaged and civic-minded kids and help our farmers prosper.
• (2023) EEAC Keynote: OSU Farm to School Cross-Programmatic Efforts Join Dr. Michelle Markesteyn, OSU Extension Farm to School Coordinator, as she discusses how OSU, the state of Oregon, and other public and private investments have come together to create a farm to school program that is making real improvements in academic achievement, public health, social capital, economic development, and environmental quality. Hear examples of how Extension faculty members have applied for grants to collaborate with local communities and learn how you can be part of this powerful program.