CSYSG

The following resources were created to support the Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden Workshop (CSYSG). Follow the links below to help you plan, implement, and care for your garden.

During the 2012-2013 school year the California School Garden Training Program will conduct 30 CSYSG workshops throughout California. 

Visit the CSGN Event Calendar to view upcoming school garden workshop offerings. To be notified of upcoming CSYSG workshops join the CSGN.

The CSYSG workshop materials consist of the following free resources:

Download CSGN's complete guide book, Gardens for Learning: Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden.

Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden Topics

Visit each page below for handouts, videos and additional links on each topic from the book and the training, "Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden."

• Why School Gardens? (view presentation below)

• Planning Your School Garden Program

• Designing Your School Garden

• Finding Supplies and Budgeting

• Choosing Plants and Planting Times

• Soil and Bed Prep

• Seeding and Transplanting

• Keep It Growing Water, Weeds and Pest Control

• Curricular Connections

• Teaching CA Content Standards in the Garden

• Outdoor Classroom Management

• Funding Your School Garden

Looking for school garden instruction materials in Spanish?

CSYSG's "Why School Gardens Presentation" (download at the CSYSG Trainer Page)