The Edible Schoolyard Composting and Fertilizer demo
Faculty Mentor Name
Tierra Smithson
Abstract
Learning about composting and fertilizer is a great way to understand the process of soil enrichment, horticulture, and supporting healthy plant growth year long. In the city of Stockton, many families struggle to maintain organic produce and gain accessibility to nutritious food either by financial struggle, time constraints, lack of available space, or educational resources. At The Edible Schoolyard, they’ve strived for several years in the city of Stockton to serve as that educational resource and give access to fresh food to the families of Stockton. Our project aims to serve a small more specific focus of their function discussing methods of composting and accessible fertilizer options to show others they can grow at home. Through our educational video focusing on comfrey, fish food, and worm composting to promote plant growth and simplify horticulture care for beginners. Our team was given the amazing opportunity to spend months researching and gaining hands-on experience volunteering at The Edible Schoolyard, we believe we’ve gained the right amount of knowledge to teach beginner farmers how they can grow their own food farm to table. Spending over 400 hours of volunteering farm work weeding, maintaining, fertilizer, and upsizing plants from seed to the ground we were able to video log this special opportunity and create an educational video. We hope this video can not only be shared with our fellow students at UOP but also the many K-12 schools that come to The Edible Schoolyard
Location
DeRosa University Center, University of the Pacific
Start Date
24-4-2026 4:15 PM
End Date
24-4-2026 4:25 PM
The Edible Schoolyard Composting and Fertilizer demo
DeRosa University Center, University of the Pacific
Learning about composting and fertilizer is a great way to understand the process of soil enrichment, horticulture, and supporting healthy plant growth year long. In the city of Stockton, many families struggle to maintain organic produce and gain accessibility to nutritious food either by financial struggle, time constraints, lack of available space, or educational resources. At The Edible Schoolyard, they’ve strived for several years in the city of Stockton to serve as that educational resource and give access to fresh food to the families of Stockton. Our project aims to serve a small more specific focus of their function discussing methods of composting and accessible fertilizer options to show others they can grow at home. Through our educational video focusing on comfrey, fish food, and worm composting to promote plant growth and simplify horticulture care for beginners. Our team was given the amazing opportunity to spend months researching and gaining hands-on experience volunteering at The Edible Schoolyard, we believe we’ve gained the right amount of knowledge to teach beginner farmers how they can grow their own food farm to table. Spending over 400 hours of volunteering farm work weeding, maintaining, fertilizer, and upsizing plants from seed to the ground we were able to video log this special opportunity and create an educational video. We hope this video can not only be shared with our fellow students at UOP but also the many K-12 schools that come to The Edible Schoolyard
