How to grow a school garden : a complete guide for parents and teachers / Arden Bucklin-Sporer and Rachel Kathleen Pringle.
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TextPublication details: Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2010.Description: 223 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cmISBN: - 1604690003
- 9781604690002
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's | 635 B924 | Available | 33111006347328 | ||||
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Adult Book
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Main Library | NonFiction | 635 B924 | Checked out | 05/21/2024 | 33111006441303 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"A school garden is a tremendously valuable tool to help young people turn book knowledge into real experience. This book is a must-have resource for anyone considering embarking on a youth gardening adventure." --Mike Metallo, President, National Gardening Association
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why school gardens? -- Laying the groundwork -- Getting the most from your site: design considerations -- Groundbreaking, budgeting, and fundraising -- Developing your school garden program -- A healthy outdoor classroom -- Tricks of the trade -- Planting, harvesting, and cooking in the garden -- Year-round garden lessons and activities -- A decade in a school garden: Alice Fong Yu Alternative School, San Francisco, California.