School Garden Planning and Design

Gardens for Learing: Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden Chapter 2 - Planning Your School Garden, Chapter 5 - Designing Your School Garden

Plant a Seed, Watch it Grow
Great web based guide to starting, caring for, and teaching in a school garden created by the Master Gardener Association of San Diego.

School Garden Wizard
School Garden Wizard has been created for America's K-12 school community through a partnership between the United States Botanic Garden and Chicago Botanic Garden. This website will help you make the case for your garden, plan for success, create the garden, learn in the garden and keep your garden growing.

Farming is Food, Fiber, Flowers… and Fun!
The Farming is Food, Fiber, Flowers... and Fun! PDF workbook is designed to walk you through the planning and implementation process of establishing or enhancing a garden project. Every attempt has been made to keep it simple and easy to use. It can be placed in a ring binder. Many of the pages can be used as templates. Personalized pages of photos, observations, sketches, evaluations, and other pertinent information may be added.

Children's Gardens (PDF Order from and infomation). Bremner, Elizabeth and Pusey, John. UCCE. 1990.
Sherbo, Jan. All the information you’ll need to plan a successful children’s garden--even if you have never gardened before. 190 pages of specific information presented in east-to-use format.

School Garden Start-Up Guide
Checklist of items to consider when planning a school garden.

California Department of Education School Garden Resource Packet California teachers request your free packet of garden startup information for California schools. This resource contains over ten items, including Life Lab Science Program's "Getting Started: A Guide for Creating School Gardens as Outdoor Classrooms." To receive your free copy, send your mailing address to Deborah Tamannaie.

Digging Deeper Kiefer, Joseph & Kemple, Martin. Food Works and Common Roots Press, 1998.

Schoolyard Mosaics: Designing Gardens and Habitats Pranis, Eve and Amy Gifford.. South Burlington, VT: National Gardening Association, 2002

Steps to a Bountiful Kids’ Garden Gifford, Amy. South Burlington,VT: National Gardening Association, 2001. A how-to guide that features detailed information on how to launch and sustain a school or community kids’ gardening program. Topics include rallying support and volunteers, developing the garden site, starting seeds indoors, controlling pests, making curriculum connections, and more.

www.PlantRight.org
Leaders from the horticultural community have partnered with environmental groups and scientists to find voluntary, pro-business ways to protect our wildlands and open spaces from invasive plants. Invasive species are the second leading threat to native plants and animals, and they cost California more than $85 million every year to control and eradicate. Through the PlantRight initiative, we can help ensure that our businesses are not contributing to this expensive problem while still promoting plant sales. To see the list of invasive plants and recommended alternatives in your region, visit our website.

Download the detailed price list of school gardening supplies and materials for guidance on creating a budget for your school garden.