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Books, Blogs, Magazines, Websites
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Our Generous Garden
Students plant and harvest a vegetable garden and change their community in the process. Read reviews!
Nuestra Huerta Generosa
Bi-lingual (Spanish-English) edition of nationally recognized children's book, Our Generous Garden. Featured book of the 2010 Florida Department of Education and Florida Department of Health's literacy and nutrition education program. Read reviews!
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More Books & Guides
How to Grow a School Garden: A Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers
By Arden Bucklin-Sporer & Rachel Kathleen Pringle of the San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance
Using a practical and hands-on approach, this book provides everything parents and teachers need to plan, build, use, maintain a school garden, as well as develop the integral programs to maintain them. Packed with strategies, lesson plans, and tricks of the trade from decades of experience, the authors will show you to make school garden projects accessible, inexpensive, and sustainable.
Kids' Garden Activity Cards - 40 Fun Outdoor Activities and Games
With 40 interactive activities and games divided into five categories, Kids' Garden encourages children to engage with the outdoors and appreciate the green world around them. Each double-sided card has step-by-step instructions with colorful collage artwork. A great way for budding green- fingered gardeners to plant, investigate, learn and experiment! By LifeLab
2010 California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom Teacher Resource Guide
$5 for teachers outside California; free online
Children's Gardens: A Field Guide for Teachers, Parents & Volunteers
Getting Started: A Guide for Creating School Gardens as Outdoor Classrooms
Center for EcoLiteracy
Smart By Nature: Schooling for Sustainability
By Michael K. Stone/Center for Ecoliteracy
Foreword by Daniel Goleman, author of Ecological Intelligence
E-Newsletters & Magazines
Branch
The national newsletter of Project Learning Tree
Chicagoland Gardening
School Garden Weekly
Weekly Instructional Activities For Your California School Garden
Movies & Videos
A Community of Gardeners by Filmmaker Cintia Cabib.
Through the voices of young people, senior citizens, immigrants, garden volunteers and educators, this one-hour documentary will explore the vital role of seven community gardens in Washington, D.C., not only as sources of fresh, nutritious food, but as outdoor classrooms, places of healing, centers of social interaction, and oases of beauty and calm in inner-city neighborhoods.
Garden Learning Videos Life Lab Science Program
Web-based videos on school garden how-to and garden-based nutrition
White House Kitchen Garden Video
A seven-minute Web video about the development of the White House kitchen garden and the role of students from Bancroft Elementary School in farming it.
Library of Congress: History of School Gardens Webcast and Transcript
Constance Carter, Head of the Science Reference Section
Websites
Aggie Horticulture Just For Kids
Texas A&M University
Common
Calif. & national
Common Ground Expert Urban Gardener
UC-Davis Coop. Ext.
Cornell Garden-Based Learning
Cornell University
Dave's Garden Gardening community website
Eco-Schools USA National Wildlife Federation
Join 43 other countries in this international initiative designed to encourage whole-school action for the environment
ILoveFreeThings.com
Free seeds, garden posters, CDs and more!
The Little Green People Show
Sustainable living in the big city
Meeting Children's Nutrition & Health Needs through Gardening
Nutrition For Kids
Create a new nutrition culture for kids! Books and programming from Connie Evers, MS, RD, an award-winning registered dietitian who has dedicated her career to promoting the nutritional health of children and adolescents.
Passion For Pollinators
There is so much magic to be captured in the gardens of not only our Important Pollinators but other Insects as well. The images captured in this photographer's own personal gardens not only show the beauty of these Insects, but their fascinating personalities.
Producepedia.com
An educational, easy to navigate, entertaining website aimed at helping people embrace a healthy diet. By Western Growers.
WikiGardens
Free garden encyclopedia featuring plant database, garden showcase, forum,
journal, vendors and garden groups
World Food Garden
The world's first map of small food gardens
