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Getting Started
Creating and Growing Edible Schoolyards: A How to Manual for School Professionals — Statewide Health Improvement Program and Anoka–Hennepin School District
- School Gardens – Statewide Health Improvement Program – (recorded webinar)
Got Dirt? — Wisconsin Department of Health Services — This is a toolkit designed to help organizers implement community, childcare and school gardens.
Community Garden Toolkit — The National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity (NPLAN) — This toolkit is designed to help overcome the legal and practical barriers to establishing community gardens on land that is not municipally owned. It provides several model agreements and other documents that can easily be tailored, simplifying the process of building an agreement that benefits both landowners and the community.
KidsGardening has been working to renew and sustain the essential connection between people, plants, and the environment. It provides free educational plant-based materials, grants, and resources that speak to young minds, educators, youth and community organizations, and the general gardening public in five core areas; education, health and wellness, environmental stewardship, community development, and home gardening.
School Garden Resources — Life Lab — A comprehensive collection of resources to start, grow and educate in your school garden.
Youth and Community Food — C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems, Michigan State University — Comprehensive list of school garden resources, including a detailed data base of hands—on activities and lessons
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