Steps To A School Garden

Resources for each step of managing your school garden.

Resources curated by Life Lab as part of the California School Garden Training Program.
1
Why School Gardens? - State Your Case
  1. Why School Gardens? The Benefits of School Gardening
  2. Research Article Database
2
Plan and Fund Your Garden
  1. Planning Your School Garden Program
  2. Finding Supplies and Budgeting Resources
  3. Grants
  4. Grant Searching Resources
  5. Healthy Fundraisers
3
Plant An Edible Garden
  1. All Resources For Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden
  2. Design Your Garden
  3. Crop Planning
  4. Soils & Garden Beds
  5. Seedlings & Transplants
  6. Maintain Your Garden
  7. Garden Safety
4
Teach In The Garden
  1. Lesson Database
  2. Garden-Based Literature Lists
  3. Garden-Enhanced Nutrition Education Lessons
  4. Outdoor Classroom Management
  5. Connecting To Content Standards
5
Eat Nutritious Food
  1. Garden-Enhanced Nutrition Education (GENE)
  2. Producepedia
  3. Harvesting
  4. Cooking With Kids
  5. Taste Testing
  6. Garden To Cafeteria
  7. Network for Health CA
  8. CA Farm to School Network
6
Promote, Network & Assess
  1. Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden Trainer Materials
  2. Garden-Enhanced Nutrition Education Trainer Materials
  3. Network With School Garden Support Organizations
  4. The Garden Resources, Education, and Environment Nexus Tool for Well-Integrated School Gardens from Teachers College Columbia University
  5. edWeb.net Growing School Garden Community
  6. Evaluator Toolkit from Cornell Garden-Based Learning
  7. Using Evaluation to Move Your Program to the Next Level from Teachers College Columbia University