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Have never grown a thing before?

Sometimes teachers who have grown successfully at home or have tried growing gardens at school are set on their "wrong" or inefficient ways of growing...

• which makes them not very coachable about proven, efficient, but sometimes controversial ways we grow gardens in Oasis programs...
• which makes them, understandably, attached to their old ways because they have invested a lot of nerves, time, and energy setting those systems up or making those decisions.

...You have the advantage of learning the right way and have massive success by following the right advice in this membership!

Worry the content needs more time than you can spare??

I get that balancing teaching responsibilities and lesson planning on top of everything else is demanding...

I want this membership to be time-saving for you.

That's why I am planning to give you step-by-step activity guides, shopping Lists, setup guides, care instructions, and even student worksheets and progress-tracking posters.

But as a founding member, you'll get to tell me what YOU need and I will seriously consider incorporating it into the membership, given that it's reasonable of course.

Wondering if your students would be interested and engaged?

One of the main causes of disinterest in students towards gardening is the lack of quick and impressive results!

If they feel like gardening is hard labor and a good harvest is hard to come by, they lose interest very quickly.

That's why in this membership we will never use gardening as a tool to teach hard work and sacrifice, but as a tool to learn where food comes from and to empower the students with the exciting idea that they can grow their own.

To do that, we will grow lots of fast and easy food using easy-to-assemble low-maintenance systems.

When they see the food growing right in front of their eyes, they will be super-interested and engaged, some more than others, as it is with any subject, of course.

Worry that you'll need help?

I get it! You're thinking what if I need help? 

One of the things I would like to establish especially between the Founding members, from the very beginning, is community.

That's why I am thinking of creating a chat group on a platform that we choose. I will be on this chat group at your service all day long, even over the weekends.

So you can chat with me or with each other whenever you choose to.

I want to make my decade of experience doing this work available to you so that you not only get help when things go sideways, but also not make the mistakes that I made.

Wondering if the content is adaptable to your classroom size, location and climate?

Sunny means, at least 4 hours of direct sunlight shining inside the room from the window!

This space can be anywhere within your school as long as it's easily accessible to you and your class to visit regularly and nurse the plants.

Of course, it's best if the nursery is in your classroom. But it doesn't have to be.

You will use your classroom space to grow the plants and then move them to the designated sunny window to be cared for.

These indoor classroom projects can expand to any school in North America.

All the space you need is 3 square feet in front of a sunny window.

Worry about allergies and exposure?

Have sensitive kids in your class?

We can not guarantee that none of the kids would ever react to anything in your classroom garden.

But, I will teach you to always use certified organic or at least organically made soil that's free of all added chemicals. This way, there will not even be a need for gloves.

Skin exposure to organic soil is not only not harmful but extremely beneficial for your student's health. Research has shown that enzymes in healthy soil create happiness.

You will never have a nut allergy concern in these gardens since we won't be growing any, of course.

And for longer maturing plants such as tomatoes, they will be out of your classroom space, donated, given away, or transplanted, way before they develop flowers. So there will be no  pollen swirling around in your classroom air.

Any special or expensive equipment?

As long as you have the Sunny Window we mentioned above, you are good to go!

No need for grow lights, grow towers, hydroponics or aquaponics equipment, or anything else that's complicated and expensive.

You'll be surprised how much your class can grow in front of a sunny window.

If you cannot find absolutely no accessible sunny windows in the entire school, then we could think about grow lights. But, I highly encourage finding a sunny window.

Other expenses on top of the membership fee?

Yes, you will need to purchase the following supplies to run the growing activities in your class, in most months:

• One pack of Organic or Heirloom seeds
• One 20 L bag of Certified Organic or organically made Potting Soil
• Plastic party cups, trays, push pins, and other craft materials, some of which you may already have in your classroom and some of which you could reuse for years to come.

We estimate your material expenses would not go over $20 each month.

Who is this NOT for?

This membership is not for everyone!

It might sound strange to discourage you from joining this club. But it's best for you, me, and the community that only those who this is truly meant for are in it with us.

Please kindly NOT JOIN if:

• You are not a day-school teacher. This club is not suitable for parents even if you want to help grow a school garden. Please invite your kid's teachers to join us instead.
• You are a homeschooling parent. We have the Oasis Box subscription box for you. This club is only for day-school teachers.
• You want to learn about fancy methods of growing food such as grow towers, hydroponics, aquaponics, etc. We will not be learning about these complicated and expensive methods since most teachers don't have access to such equipment.
• You want to grow a community garden with the main purpose of feeding the community. Such elaborate outdoor gardens will be covered in our Spring flagship programs, Oasis Classroom and Oasis Schools
• You want to grow with a club, on lunch-time, weekends, after-hours, etc. This club is for teachers who want to grow with their own class and connect gardening with their curriculum, teaching their students how to grow food and where it comes from, with small manageable classroom projects.

Your FOUNDING MEMBER fee will be...

Founding Members Bonuses

(future members will not get)

Exclusive direct access to me (Leila) and my decade of growing experience in schools

We will set up a private chat group for the founding members on the chat platform of our choice so we can directly communicate with each other. You'll also have the right to directly email me at my personal address. I will be in this group and on email, hearing you out and helping you, all week-days.

I only can do this with a small group of teachers and have to unfortunately close the doors to this intimate group for future members after this initial founding members launch (we will keep it for us).

And...

You'll get to help form the membership

Not only do you have me to help you exceed your classroom and school gardening dreams, you'll get to tell me your concerns, your questions, and your specific needs. I will curate educational material, guides, tutorials, etc., and include them in the membership to meet your "reasonable" requests.

This way we will have a great membership that's useful to you.

Teachers that join us later, won't get to form the membership we create as founding members.