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Celebrate School Garden Week
By California School Garden Network
Oct 24, 2006, 06:31

 

 

 

 

Celebrate School Garden Week

October 21 - 27, 2006

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Join the California School Garden Network in celebrating School Garden Week! CSGN is encouraging schools throughout California to host garden activities and events to celebrate the success of school gardens across Califronia. We have created downloadable School Garden Week Event Kit materials to help you plan your garden celebration. The kit includes:

More School Garden Week Announcements:

  • As part of California School Garden Week CSGN hosted an Extreme Garden Makeover at Locke High School in Los Angeles on October 21.Read the LA Times article "School garden that had gone to seed gets a green thumbs up"
  • On October 21, CSGN released its new guidebook, Gardens for Learning: Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden. This CSGN publication is available for free in hardcopy for California educators and as a downloadable PDF. Click hereto get your copy.
  • Please Join our email list to learn about upcoming CSGN events and updates to our website.
  • California Assembly Bill 1535 will provide $15,000,000 to support school gardens. more information



Read more on how school gardens support academic achievement, healthy lifestyles, environmental stewardship and community and social development.

A Child's Garden of Standards: Linking School Gardens to California Education Standards
A guide to garden-based education using existing curricula in grades 2-6. PDF link

California Department of Education School Garden Resource Packet
This resource contains over ten items, including Life Lab Science Program’s Getting Started: A Guide for Creating School Gardens as Outdoor Classrooms. Califronia Teachers, to receive your free copy, send your mailing address to DeborahTamannaie.

Farming is Food, Fiber, Flowers... And Fun: A Workbook and Resource Guide for Growers of School Gardens
A downloadable workbook designed to walk you through the planning and implementation process of establishing or enhancing a garden project created by CFAITC

Plant a Seed, Watch it Grow
Great web based guide to starting, caring for, and teaching in a school garden created by the Master Gardener Association of San Diego.



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