School Gardening Tips and Resources

School Garden Resources: Getting Started Kids Gardening: helping young minds grow. Discusses ways to build and gather support, program plan, designing the garden, overall resources all the way to planting, maintaining and sustaining the garden. Provides information on funding sources. http://www.kidsgardening.org/article/getting-youth-garden-started

School Garden Resources: Getting Started My Healthy School Getting started, Vision, Site Location, Building the Garden and Planting. Discusses classroom application http://www.myhealthyschool.com/gardens/resources.php

School Gardening Resources: Funding Garden ABC’s Keeps track of every youth and community garden grant that they come across! Provides dates for grant deadlines. http://www.gardenabcs.com/Grants.html

School Gardening Resources: Funding Growing Schools Provides grants that support outdoor learning projects. http://www.growingschools.org.uk/support/funding_grants.asp

School Gardening Resources: Local, State and Nationwide MU Extension Healthy Lifestyle Initiative Planning, curriculum, programs to learn from, funding, professional development and learning. http://extension.missouri.edu/healthylife/schoolgardening.htm

School Gardening Resources: Local Funding Eagle Scouts Projects Building Beds, fences, etc. Donations hardware stores, garden centers, gardening organizations. Programs existing in the area Afterschool , 4-H, Master Gardeners

Outdoor Classroom Management Establish Garden Rules with students. Discuss outdoor activities inside first. Work with smaller groups in the garden by having volunteers or helpers on planting days. Work in stations.

Rachael McGinnis Millsap mcginnisr@missouri.edu Questions? Rachael McGinnis Millsap mcginnisr@missouri.edu