Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden

Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden: The Fundamentals of Designing, Creating, Enhancing and Maintaining Educational Gardens Audience: School garden teams of 2 or more people interested in starting or enhancing an educational garden Location and Cost Options: Life Lab's Garden Classroom on the UC Santa Cruz Campus:  $150/participant or Your school site:  $1,500/day plus travel for 2 trainers.  25 participant maximum.

Workshop Description:

In this one-day workshop you’ll learn how to take the first steps toward creating, restoring, or enhancing a living laboratory.  Topics will include garden design ideas, soil preparation, planting, watering, and pest management, as well as building a support network, linking to academic content standards, and planning for a year-round harvest.   Schools may opt to add a second workshop day to apply these skills directly at their site.

Participants will take home:

• California School Garden Network 's Creating Gardens for Learning .
• A detailed action plan for creating or enhancing their garden.
• A list of educational garden elements from the Life Lab Garden Classroom.
• A booklet of relevant handouts, all of which can be downloaded at the California School Garden Network website.

All workshops require advanced registration and deposit.

View our photo gallery to view a multitude of school garden design elements.

View all scheduled upcoming workshops here.

To set up a workshop for your school site, pleas call Life Lab Science Program at (831) 459-5476 or email us at education@lifelab.org.