Links
Here are some helpful links to provide you with inspriation for your school food garden. Explore and enjoy!
Toronto School Food Gardens - Blog
Read about the exciting things being done by our friends in Toronto. Great pictures and ideas for inspiration!
This Canadian-based website offers free access to expert assistance and free resources on school ground greening and school food garden projects. The Teacher's Corner section offers lesson plans and techniques for teaching outdoors and resources with curriculum connections for kindergarten to grade twelve. Other print, video and web reference materials are also available.
This web site offers a number of downloadable guides to help you plan, organize, develop, sustain and evaluate your school garden. There is also a curriculum learning guide for teachers.
Read how one middle school in Berkley, CA developed a gardening and cooking program for students. They share their unique program as a model to inspire other schools and also provide tips, resources and lessons learned.
This web site features scads of classroom stories, curriculum connections, tools for classroom projects, "how-to" articles, related web sites, and more. Their School Greenhouse Guide provides key issues relevant to educators planning to run—or currently running—a school greenhouse program.
Menu of Choices is an online resource that provides quality information and tools that support your school community in addressing healthy eating. Special features include: download cut-outs for a healthy eating bulletin board, healthy eating lessons and sample nutrition polices, as well as curriculum links for both elementary and secondary schools.
Connecting youth and elders to investigate the mosaic of plants, people and cultures in gardens. Great activities, printer friendly science pages, teacher tips, action projects and more.
The web site is a resource guide for kindergarten to grade 12 science educators including nutrition and plant science curriculum materials.
This site offers numerous fact sheets that address topics from choosing a site for your garden and deciding on what to plant, to soil testing and composting with worms.
Green Teacher is a magazine that helps youth educators enhance environmental and global education inside and outside of schools. They also offer Green Teacher books for elementary, middle and high school years.
Everdale is an organic farm and environmental learning centre in Hillsburgh, ON. Its purpose is to teach sustainable living practices and operate an exemplary organic farm. Everdale offers a variety of hands-on educational experiences including Farm Apprenticeships, Weekend courses and workshops, School programs (matched to provincial curriculum K-8), and Educational tours for the public.