Planting Perennials What are Perennial Plants? Perennial plants are plants that live for two or more years. Read More » November 21, 2010
Good Times ~ From Field to Able – “Food, What?!” Youth Program A nice article from The GoodTimes 11.2.2010 The Youth Crew at Food, What?! mixes farming-based Read More » November 2, 2010
English Language Development Bears Fruit in School Gardens Life Lab’s Language Acquisition and Science Education in Rural Schools (LASERS) program showed the positive Read More » October 18, 2010
Benefit Event on GoodTimes TV Life Lab’s Annual Benefit was so great this year that the local media came to Read More » September 21, 2010
Chicken Coop Design Many folks have asked us for our chicken coop design. Here it is as a Read More » June 15, 2010
Worm Bin Bingo Search through a worm compost bin and find various critters on a BINGO board. With Read More » May 22, 2010
Santa Cruz Sentinel ~ Strawberries are a Blast “Food,What?!” Strawberry Youth Blast coverage from the Santa Cruz Sentinel — All things strawberry were Read More » May 13, 2010
Building an Outdoor Classroom View more of our school garden design resources. View the photos below to see the Read More » April 25, 2010
Our Garden Classroom In 1998, Life Lab Science Program began dreaming about creating an outdoor learning center where people Read More » April 25, 2010
Life Lab’s Oral History Four key figures in Life Lab’s history have been documented as part of UCSC’s Cultivating Read More » April 22, 2010
Edible Crop Planning If you haven’t already it is time to start planting for your school harvest.. Planting Read More » March 25, 2010
Free Garden Science Exploration Units Created with lessons from the K-5 Life Lab Science Curriculum and The Growing Classroom. These Read More » February 26, 2010
New Publications for Families and Pre-school Educators Our two new publications will help get families and wee-ones exploring the garden! Sowing the Seeds of Wonder Read More » February 23, 2010
Full Circle Farm – “A school district’s Farm” Full Circle Farm is an 11-acre organic, educational farm that puts fresh food in Santa Read More » February 18, 2010
Citysprouts an Effective School Gardening Program! Citysprouts helps a Cambridge, MA school district create learning gardens in 12 schoolyards, and supports Read More » February 18, 2010
“Back Pocket” Garden Activities The following videos demonstrate what we, here at Life Lab, refer to as “back pocket Read More » January 22, 2010
“Food, What?!” Youth Program Eco Company TV created this video on Life Lab’s Spring Afterschool Internship. It aired across Read More » January 14, 2010
The Garden, A Master Teacher – An Essay In our responses to the editor of The Atlantic we ask that they publish The Read More » January 14, 2010
Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden The Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden (CSYSG) Video Series is a part of the Read More » January 12, 2010
Top of the Class Life Lab’s Executive Director Gail Harlamoff was recently interviewed for the following cover story of Read More » January 7, 2010
30th Anniversary Year In Review Our 30th year of brining learning to life in a garden was celebrated with many Read More » January 1, 2010
Worm Composting Everyone should learn to compost with worms. They are natures way of recycling so they Read More » December 9, 2009
Middle School Social Science Lessons These lessons have been developed to bring garden-based nutrition education and California standards-based social studies Read More » November 22, 2009
“Food, What?!” Harvest Fest in the Sentinel The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered our largest youth Harvest Fest to date. The article “A Read More » October 30, 2009