1. School Gardening Tips and Resources

2. 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.

3. School Garden Resources: Getting Started
My Healthy School
Getting started, Vision, Site Location, Building the Garden and Planting.
Discusses classroom application

4. 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.

5. School Gardening Resources: Funding
Growing Schools
Provides grants that support outdoor learning projects.

6. School Gardening Resources: Local, State and Nationwide
MU Extension Healthy Lifestyle Initiative
Planning, curriculum, programs to learn from, funding, professional development and learning.

7. 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

8. 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.

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