Tips and Resources for Educational Garden
Program Management

Attending a Life Lab Workshop is one of the best ways to get your garden team motivated for planning, expanding or sustaining your school garden. For those of you who cannot attend a workshop we have included Garden Times Newsletter articles and publications that can help you or your garden team to manage your school garden project.

Sustaining Your School Garden- Article from The Garden Times, Spring 2002

Summer Vacation for Your Garden- Article from the Garden Times, Spring 2003

Managing an Effective Outdoor Classroom- Short article from the Garden Times, Spring 2003

Effective Outdoor Mangement - A 4 page pdf download created as part of the "Effective Garden Instruction Video Project "

Teaching Nutrition Through a School Garden- Article from the Garen Times, Winter 2003

Worm Bin Bingo Game - Instructions to play and download link for worm bin bingo cards

The National Gardening Association's Garden Pathways shows hundreds of ways to connect school gardens to academic content.

Choosing Plants and Planting Times
Deciding what and when to plant in your school garden is often challenge for new gardeners. Here are a few resources from the CSGN's Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden Workshop that will help you make a successful plan.
Planning an Annual Vegetable Harvest
Planting Perennial Plants

Salad Harvest Cards
Use these cards to break the task of harvesting and/or preparing a salad with a group of kids. Download cards and instructions.

Getting Started
Life Lab's 20 page guide to planning a school garden. Download 20 page Getting Starting.

The 20 page Getting Started is a predecessor to the 50 page Life Lab Publication Getting Started: A Guide for Creating School Garden. Download or purchase a hard copy of the 50 page Getting Started at Life Lab's Store

Middle School Science Lessons
These lessons These lessons have been developed to bring garden-based nutrition education and California standards-based social studies curriculum together. We believe that food history is an intregal part of understanding culture and that experiential lessons in the garden and cooking classroom can encourage students to eat more healthily and deepen their understanding of past civilizations. These lessons were developed and implemented by Katy Pearce kpearce@husd.k12.ca.us