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The Connecticut School Garden Network
“How do I start a school garden?”
“How do I improve food at my child’s school?”
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CT NOFA School Garden Network Map
How-to's, instructional resources and "Where do I start?"Slow Food USA Links:
Building a School Garden
Improving School FoodAppalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project school garden resources
Aquaponics for Educators forum at the Aquaponic Gardening Community
In September 2009, Bon Appétit Management Company released the innovative Student Garden Guide
California School Garden Network offers help here.
Center for Ecoliteracy has a downloadable guide to Getting Started
Children's Garden Network in Rhode Island
City Farmer resource list
The Classroom Victory Garden Project
Cornell Composting in the Classroom
Cornell University Garden-Based Learning
Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN: A New Deal for School Gardens
Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN: Setting Up and Running a School Garden
Friends of the Burlington Gardens & the Vermont Community Garden Network offer this toolkit for starting a school or community garden
Garden ABCs How-to guides
Georgia Organics has a Farm to School Sample Lesson Plan here and also Farm to School forums here
Green Teacher Education for Planet Earth webinars
Green Village Initiative Farms & Gardens
GreenHeart Education gives ideas for education for sustainability, including school gardensGrow New Haven Garden Connected to Every School Initiative
Grow to Learn NYC shares good, practical information
Growing Gardens resource ideas
Growing Minds resources for edible school gardens
Hawai'i Island School Garden Network
Journey to Forever school gardening resources
Kentucky School Garden Network
Library of Congress guide to resouces
Library of Congress video on the history of school gardens
Life Lab offers garden-based education resources for teachers
LifeCycles school garden FAQsLSU Ag Center school garden fact sheet
The Maine School Garden Network
The National Gardening Association has information on school gardens
NSAC Guide to Federal Funding for Local and Regional Food Systems
NOFA-NH's Autumn 2011 newsletter discusses Farm-to-School programs
National Wildlife Federation Garden for Wildlife Schoolyard Habitats
New Jersey Farm to School Network School Garden Programs
Occidental Arts & Ecology Center Teacher Training & Support Program
Radiant Hen Publishing offers a series of Agri-Culture books for children
Readers to Eaters - books, programs and events to promote food literacy
Real School Gardens - ideas on fundraising, building, curriculum and more
Yale's Rudd Center's new website: Rudd SPARK
School Garden Weekly offers instructional resources and activities
School Garden Wizard shares their magic
South Carolina Dept. of Ag School Gardens Program
Sustainable Table school garden and food projects
Texas A&M University lists resources for school gardensTimber Press How to Grow a School Garden; A Complete Guide for Parents
UConn Five Steps to Food Safe School Gardening
University of California Cooperative Extension, County of San Diego
University of Illinois Extension My First Garden
USDA Food & Nutrition Service Farm to School Resources
USDA School garden and classroom resource library
Vermont Feed Guide for using produce from school gardens
Woolly School Gardens vertical gardening kits and resources
Funding: ideas, how to get the process started, where to apply for financial resourcesCalifornia SGN finding and funding supplies
Grow to Learn budgeting and funding ideas
The National Gardening Association provides some guidance on fundraising
Rebel Tomato
fundraising ideas
School Garden Weekly tips to get a grantThe University of Florida offers these suggestions
The After School Corporation (TASC)
Annie's Grants for Gardens
Awesome FoodBurpee Home Gardens "I Can Grow It" Youth Garden Award
The Culinary Trust Chefs Move to School Grants
Farm to School funding ideas
The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation
Gardener's Supply Company 8% For Gardening and the Environment
E-How Grants for School Gardens
Healthy School Environments, USDHHS
Home Depot Community Impact Grants
National Gardening Association
National Gardening Association - Adopt a Garden
NEA Student Achievement Grants
USDA Food & Nutrition Services
Wild Ones - Seeds for Education
Youth Service America UnitedHealth Heroes grants
Inspiration: see what others are doingAmerican Community Gardening Association
Baltimore's Field of Dreams
Carrots and Kids School Gardening Clubs
Chef Ann, The Renegade Lunch Lady
City Farmer: The Case for More High School Gardens
CT Green Scene: Edible School Gardens
Bill Duesing's Essays on Education and Agriculture & Reasons to Garden
Fairfield's Edible Schoolyards
Girl Scouts USA has a new locavore badge for senior scouts
Good Education: Why School Gardens Are Essential as Learning Tools
Granny's Garden School, Loveland, OH
Green Bronx Machine, Bronx, NY - Growing Our Way to a New Economy
Grist: Failure to Cultivate: Why School Gardens ARE Important
Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT
Manchester Essex Regional High School, MA
Montgomery County, MD parents try to overcome obstacles to school gardens
The Most Inept School Garden Fundraiser in History
New Haven tries for a garden in every school
New York Times: How the Food Industry Eats Your Kid's Lunch
New York Times: Sowing the Seeds of Gardening
Niles Township High Schools, Skokie, IL, change their school lunch program
Orchard Valley Garden Club and Thalberg School in Southington, CT, collaborate for a school garden. Read the article and watch the video.
Peachtree Charter Middle School, GA builds a garden in less than two weeks
Plow to Plate, New Milford,
Youth Chef Advocate Program
PS 216, Brooklyn: then, and now
Robert Simon School Complex, New York
School Garden Project of Lane County, Oregon
Sprout City Farms / Denver Green School
Toronto's Feeding Our Future program highlights the importance of nutrition
The Troy Howard Middle School Garden Project, Belfast, ME
Urban Oaks & Lincoln School, New Britain, CT
Urban Sprouts, San Francisco, CA
Warren School Harvest of Dreams Garden, Warren, CT
The Wheeler School Community Garden Blog
Wilton High School Organic Garden: read the article and visit their website.
And in 1903 this book was also an inspiration.
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If you are interested in helping to build a network of Connecticut's School Gardeners, call the office at 203-888-5146 or contact us by email.
PO Box 164 • Stevenson, CT 06491
phone: (203) 888-5146 • fax: (203) 888-9280