How to Grow a School Garden: A Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers

An informative resource that offers parents, teachers, and school administrators everything they need to know to build school gardens and develop the programs that support them. The title covers planning, fund-raising, organizing, and designing the space, preparing the site, working with parents and schools, teaching in the garden, and tips for planting, harvesting, and even cooking, with kid-friendly recipes and year-round activities. This book is packed with strategies, to-do lists, sample letters, detailed lesson plans, and tricks of the trade from decades of experience developing school garden programs for grades K through 8.

Authors: Arden Bucklin-Sporer, Rachel Kathleen Pringle