1. What Can Your Garden Grow? PRESENTED BY JACQUELINE CHRISTEN Glenside Public Library District 25 E. Fullerton Avenue, Glendale Heights, IL 60139 630-260-1550 www.glensidepld.org PROMOTING LEARNING AND ENTHUSIASM WITH A LIBRARY GARDEN

2. About Me

3. Why Gardening?

4. Opportunities for creativity and learning

5. Involvement

6. STEM in libraries I hate science! I’m not good at science!

7. Backyard Scientists “Learn about the world we live in as we plan and care for our library garden”

8. Extracting DNA from strawberries

9. Science is so freaking awesome!

10. Raised-Bed Garden Projects

11. Saving Seeds Photo: Great Plant Escape - All About Seeds urbanext.illinois.edu

12. Soil Testing

13. Soil preparation

14. No garden required!

15. Composting

16. Propagation

17. Dissecting Flowers

18. Medieval Garden

19. Making Ink From Plants

21. Growing seeds in a glove

22. Garden Journals

23. Connecting with Summer Reading Program Themes

24. How can public libraries and schools collaborate? Let’s share ideas!

25. Questions?

26. Thank you for coming!