Building New School Gardens
Camarillo Community Gardens, my community garden group, hooked up with a local grammar school that had the beginnings of a school garden nad a desire to expand the program to all grades. I got out Master Gardeners to come and provide an educational opportunity for parents to learn about raised beds and irrigation. We had a work-party that let the children work for and own the resulting garden.
We built and installed 11 raised beds, made another for later installlation, and will finish the beds on 'Dirt Day' when top soil, compost and irrigationa re installed.
Jessica,
Thanks for the props! It is extremely emotional whan all that energy comes together and gets it done. Almost like the Sorcerer's Apprentice ;)
There are some resources out there. Let me ask a few people for theior links nad I will post them here.
and I so appreciate your communication on the topic of gardening curriculums. Back soon with some input on seed-saving curriculum that will develop at Bill McDorman's first-ever Seed School - with 8-day sessions in September & October on A-Z plus setting up your local/regional seed bank. He's an old friend & one who has really walked the walk for 20-years +. Bill McDorman's core concept is: Local seed banks developed by kitchen gardeners+ are the wave of the future around the globe! :-) www.seedstrust.com with links.
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Your school & community garden documentation is just great! So many people/groups get so busy with doing the project that the story & how-to & how-the-community-came-together never gets told. Your modeling the documentation is really valuable & I'm going to use it as an example here for some busy projects.
Since you are involved in creating gardening curriculum -- I am searching for all manner of real gardening curriculums. I find many references to their having been created & used, but have not come across any posted online or even in a published book.
Since the garden teaching philosophy I prefer is grounded in natural systems, I find that there are a lot of garden teaching tutorials for kids online that I would not let my children watch. "Kill those nasty weeds!" is not the world-view of sustainable gardening. :-)
Any kindred leads or posts on actual garden curriculum text & format at any grade level would be most appreciated!