Garden Mosaics

Youth learn from the local knowledge of elder, urban community gardeners and farmers, and from science resources produced at Cornell University. The i·m·science investigations and other activities integrate science learning, multicultural understanding, intergenerational mentoring, and community action. Our experience working in diverse immigrant and minority communities in the US led to international work, in which we are integrating local and scientific knowledge into youth education programs. During summer 2005, two Cornell graduate students adapted the Garden Mosaics activities for use in South African township schools.

Major Collaborators: Keith Tidball, Cornell University; Gretchen Ferenz, Cornell Cooperative Extension-NYC; Kendra Liddicoat, Alexey Kudryavtsev, and Jamila Simon, Cornell University.

Educator Resources

Krasny, ME, KG Tidball, D Hoard, and C Broadnax. 2006. Agricultural Biodiversity Digital Interactive Learning Tool. Photosynthesis Productions. Ithaca, NY.

Krasny, ME, R Doyle, K Tidball, and the Garden Mosaics Leadership Team. 2005. Garden Mosaics Program Manual. Cornell University Department of Natural Resources. 256 pp.

Krasny, ME, KG Tidball, and D Hoard. 2004. Garden Mosaics Interactive DVD for Educators. Photosynthesis Productions. Ithaca, NY.

Krasny, ME, KG Tidball, and D Hoard. 2004. Garden Mosaics Promotional DVD. Photosynthesis Productions. Ithaca, NY.

Kahkonen, S, G Dorfman, and M Krasny. 2004-06. Garden Mosaics Science Pages. Cornell University Department of Natural Resources. Available in hard copy and online, in Spanish and English, at: http://www.gardenmosaics.cornell.edu/pgs/science/mainscience.htm.

Garden Mosaics participants, ME Krasny, and KG Tidball. 2004-06. i m science reports and protocols http://www.gardenmosaics.cornell.edu/pgs/data/maindata.htm.

Krasny, ME, P Newton, and L Tompkins. 2004. The Value of a Garden. ActionBioscience. American Institute of Biological Sciences. Washington, DC. http://www.actionbioscience.org/biodiversity/rinker2.html#educatorresources.

Related Publications

Schusler, TM and ME Krasny. 2006. Youth participation in local environmental action: Developing political and scientific literacy. Accepted to: Jensen, B and A Reid, eds. Critical International Perspectives on Participation in Environmental and Health Education. University Press, Danish University of Education, Copenhagen, Denmark. http://www.gardenmosaics.cornell.edu/pgs/aboutus/Youth_Participation.PDF

Alegre, M, Ana, Catalina, Denise, Diego, Jhenny, Juana, Mariano, Orlando, Oscar, Pablo, Stephanie, L Babcock A DiTommaso, M Krasny, and A Kudryavtsev. 2006. Weed Watch: Youth help scientist survey urban weeds. Weed Science Society of America. WeedWatchAH.pdf

Liddicoat, K, ME Krasny, and JW Simon. 2005. Garden Mosaics in South Africa: Discovering connections between people, cultures, science, and action. North American Association of Environmental Education. Albuquerque, NM. http://www.gardenmosaics.cornell.edu/pgs/aboutus/GM_in_South_Africa.ppt

Kennedy, AM and ME Krasny. 2005. Garden Mosaics: Connecting Science to Community. The Science Teacher 72(3):44-48. http://www.nsta.org/main/news/pdf/tst0503_44.pdf

Krasny, ME. 2005. An Exploration of Participatory Methods in a Youth Outreach Program Linked to University Research. In: Peters, S, N Jordan, M Adamek, and TR Alter, eds. Engaging Campus and Community: The Practice of Public Scholarship in the American Land-Grant University System. Kettering Foundation, Dayton, OH. pp 309-362.

Krasny, ME and R Bonney. 2005. Environmental education through Citizen Science and Participatory Action Research: the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and Garden Mosaics examples. In: Mappin, M and EA Johnson, eds. Environmental Education or Advocacy: Perspectives of Ecology and Education in Environmental Education. Cambridge University Press. pp 292-319.

Krasny, ME. 2005. University K-12 science outreach programs: How can we reach a broad audience? BioScience 55(4):350-359. http://www.gardenmosaics.cornell.edu/pgs/aboutus/University_K12_Science.pdf

Kudryavtsev, A, ME Krasny, G Ferenz, and L Babcock. 2005. Digital Era? No Educator Left Behind! North American Association of Environmental Education. Albuquerque, NM. http://www.gardenmosaics.cornell.edu/pgs/aboutus/Digital_Era_Poster.pdf

Kudryavtsev, A and ME Krasny. 2005. The impact of an internet forum on dissemination of environmental education programs. North American Association of Environmental Education, Albuquerque, NM. http://www.gardenmosaics.cornell.edu/pgs/aboutus/Internet_Forum_Poster.pdf

Krasny, ME, K Liddicoat, and R O'Donoghue. 2005. Local knowledge in urban environmental education in the U.S. and South Africa. North American Association of Environmental Education. Albuquerque, NM. ttp://www.gardenmosaics.cornell.edu/pgs/aboutus/Local_Knowledge_Poster.pdf

Saldivar-Tanaka, L and ME Krasny. 2004. The role of NYC Latino community gardens in community development, open space, and civic agriculture. Agriculture and Human Values 21:399-412. http://www.gardenmosaics.cornell.edu/pgs/aboutus/Culturing_Community_Development.PDF

Doyle, R and ME Krasny. 2003. Participatory Rural Appraisal as an approach to environmental education in urban community gardens. Environmental Education Research 9(1):91-115. http://www.gardenmosaics.cornell.edu/pgs/aboutus/Participatory_Rural_Appraisal.pdf.

Krasny, ME and R Doyle. 2002. Participatory approaches to extension in a multi-generational, urban community gardening program. Journal of Extension 40(5): http://www.joe.org/joe/2002october/a3.shtml