How to Grow a School Garden: A Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers
A valuable tool for creating rich learning experiences and helping children reconnect to the natural world.
Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods
In this groundbreaking resource,
How to Grow a School Garden: A Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers
A valuable tool for creating rich learning experiences and helping children reconnect to the natural world.
Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods
In this groundbreaking resource, two school garden pioneers offer parents, teachers, and school administrators everything they need to know to build school gardens and to develop the programs that support them.
Today both schools and parents have a unique opportunity — and an increasing responsibility — to cultivate an awareness of our finite resources, to reinforce values of environmental stewardship, to help students understand concepts of nutrition and health, and to connect children to the natural world. What better way to do this than by engaging young people, their families, and teachers in the wondrous outdoor classroom that is their very own school garden?
It's all here: developing the concept, planning, fund-raising, organizing, designing the space, preparing the site, working with parents and schools, teaching in the garden, planting, harvesting, and even cooking, with kid-friendly recipes and year-round activities. Packed with strategies, to-do lists, sample letters, detailed lesson plans, and tricks of the trade from decades of experience developing school garden programs for grades K–8, this hands-on approach will make school garden projects accessible, inexpensive, and sustainable.
Reclaiming a piece of neglected play yard and transforming it into an ecologically rich school garden is among the most beneficial activities that parents, teachers, and children can undertake together. This book provides all the tools that the school community needs to build a productive and engaging school garden that will continue to inspire and nurture students and families for years to come.
- Format: Flexibind
- Pages: 224 pp.
- Book dimensions: 8 x 10 in. (255 x 205 mm.)
- Images: 117 color photos, 4 drawings
- ISBN-10: 1604690003
- ISBN-13: 9781604690002
- Product code: 689000
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"This book will be a well-thumbed resource in many school and public libraries.... Strongly recommended."
"This book's hands-on approach will make school garden projects accessible, inexpensive, and sustainable."
—Carol A. Friesen, Journal of Education Nutrition and Behavior
"Their hands-on approach makes school garden projects accessible, inexpensive and sustainable."
—Marin Independent Journal
"A must-have for any gardening library."
—Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Newsletter
"A treasure trove of good advice and innovative ideas, from the usual 'what to grow' and 'how to garden' to using the garden as a teaching tool and creative starting point.... Fabulous resource