Children’s Herb Garden:
The Literacy of the Peaceful Garden
The Peaceful Garden Program
teaches students how to garden as a community collective. The program inspires students by teaching them how to incorporate
a home garden yield by incorporating it in everyday healthy eating. Students will learn that healthy eating includes live
and cooked vegetables, fruits and rices.
The objective of this
7 week project is to create a youth community garden of herbs that will be used during the summer in featured healthy cooking
presentations; youth will also read and have discussions about how herbs are used as natural medicine and how to dry herbs
for tea. In part 2 of the Peaceful Garden project that begins in September,
2009, youth will harvest herbs, dry them and prepare and package teas. During the same program, youth will learn basics on
how to sell their teas online. They will also learn some introductions to rules of making a business plan; Volunteers from
Junior Achievement and Community Businesses will be guest speakers and workshop leaders.
Volunteers: Americorps
Vista, Hush House Leadership and Mc Michael Middle School Staff will partner- in Ecological Literacy: Groups will read about
herbal gardeners and participate in talks and write short stories about their experiences as new gardeners, as herbalists
and eating new types of foods. Americorps Vista staff will organize the speaking
engagements, reading materials and edit stories to be published in Hush Your Mouth Media.
In Part 2 of the
Program, to be held in the fall, students will participate in writing articles to encourage other youth in the areas of gardening,
healthy eating and food preparation; with proper permission, they may also participate in a film project that records their
entrepreneur development.
Healthy Cookin’ with Hush Power Program!
Hush staff and visiting Cooks will prepare featured healthy low cost meals. A 6 week project
This is an outdoor cooking
workshop that will demonstrate the use of various fresh vegetables, fruits, herbs
and non-white rice’s. All cooked recipes will employ the use of featured
heat methods to demonstrate the safe use of alternative (non electric, non gas)
cooking methods. Participants will learn to read, write and create recipes for healthy living!
The Field of Vision Dreams and Hope Program
Summer Program 8 weeks
A Reading, Writing and ecological restoration project
In this 8 week program
participants will participate in age appropriate reading and writing that will inspire them to adopt quotes that they will
transfer onto posters that will be used to create a labyrinth of vision, dreams and hope.
Volunteers: The Hush House,
Mc Michael Middle Summer School, The Matrix, EarthWorks, Detroit Artist Village,
and others.
Fall Program
8 weeks
- Poetry and Paint Programming Children
- Building Hope writing project
Creating
an inscribed walking path
Inscribing Doorways of Hope
Painting Visions and Dreams Poster Project
Winter Programming:
Carols, Ice rink; Prayer:
Poetry
Strictly Literacy@Hush Projects:
All teams will be
divided equitably based on the number of volunteers; Americorps Vista volunteers may be joined by Hush House volunteer staff,
City of Hope, and others; all staff will be supervised by Hush House Leadership Staff and Hush House Administrative Staff.
Volunteers will also be directed by Americorps Vista.
The Johnny
Wright Team-Team A-
This team will create
an electronic card catalogue system for all museum books, music and audio holdings
located and stored at Hush House 1 and 2 (6179 and 6185 Wabash).
The Robert
Williams Team-Team B-
This team will create
an electronic card catalogue system for all museum exhibit panels and all museum
artifacts.
The President
Ellen Johnson Sirlef Team-Team C-
This team will create
a card catalogue system, re-package and distribute books for all Liberian Literacy Project books housed at King Solomon Baptist
Church.
The Georgia
Ann Lee Team-Team D-
This team will work in
rotation as tutors to support the writing within the literacy component of the Herb Garden Project and the Field of Vision,
Dreams and Hope Project, Cookin’ with Hush Power Project.
The T. S.
Boone Team-Team E-
This team will collect
and catalogue historical data of King Solomon
Missionary Baptist Church
for the National Historic Register of historical places.
