How to Grow a School Garden

In this groundbreaking resource, two school garden pioneers offer parents, teachers, and head teachers everything they need to know to build school gardens and to develop the programs that support them. 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 a wondrous outdoor classroom? Packed with strategies, to-do lists, sample letters, detailed lesson plans and other tricks of the trade, this hands-on approach will make school garden projects accessible, inexpensive, and sustainable. Reclaiming a neglected play area and transforming it into an ecologically rich school garden is one of the most beneficial activities that parents, teachers, and children can undertake together. This book provides all the tools that a school community needs to build a productive and engaging school garden that will continue to inspire and nurture students and families in the years to come.