Dry Beans
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![Dry beans varieties in a bowl](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/extension/uploads/sites/25/sge2.jpg)
![Children planting dry beans in a raised bed](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/extension/uploads/sites/25/Sge3.jpg)
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School Garden-Based Education Program
Our goal is to share school garden-based education to increase pulse consumption. We have developed a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)-based curriculum for 4th graders that follow the Next Generation Science Standards. Lessons include planting, harvesting, and threshing dry beans in the school garden as well as hands-on activities with beans in the classroom. This curriculum will work well for any pulse crop that is to be planted in your school garden. In northwest Washington, dry beans are the crop that grows best and so are used in this curriculum.
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Poster: Promoting health & nutrition through school garden education
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Growing Dry Beans
Dry beans are an easy crop to grow in the garden and are a healthy food choice. Our publication Growing Dry Beans in the Home Garden (PDF) provides planting guidelines, common disease and insect pests in Washington, and harvest and storage tips.
Cooking With Pulses
Vegetable Grafting
Educational materials
- Hosting a Vegetable Grafting Workshop (PDF). This information packet from Washington State University provides instructions for how to host a vegetable grafting workshop, including a step-by-step guide for hosting the workshop and a list of supplies for the presenter; and for the participants there are useful handouts and a survey.
![Participants are grafting watermelon in vegetable grafting workshop](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/extension/uploads/sites/25/Fig-1-scaled-1-1024x768.jpg)
![Vegetable grafting demonstration for school students](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/extension/uploads/sites/25/Fig2-1024x480.jpg)
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vegetable grafting class lesson
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