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Garden Website Resources

HEN Workshops

Are you an educator or school administrator in the Halton Region? HEN provides climate change and environmental workshops for Grades K-12, including hands-on activities and valuable resources for teachers and children!

Canada

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Green Thumbs Growing Kids
https://www.greenthumbsto.org/resources
An amazing Toronto organization that has been running school food gardens for 25 years! You do have to sign up to get the curriculum-linked resources.

 

Sustain Ontario
https://sustainontario.com/greenhouse/resource-database/?_sft_initiatives=food-literacy
https://sustainontario.com/greenhouse/resource-database/?_sft_initiatives=children-youth
Sustain Ontario has a lot of food and garden resources under their Food Literacy and their Children and Youth initiatives

 

FoodShare Toronto
https://foodshare.net/program/educator/
Variety of lesson plans, many with a strong social justice lens.

 

Farm to School BC
https://farmtoschoolbc.ca/school-gardens/category=Garden%20Education%20-%20Lessons%20%26%20Activities

 

Seeds of Diversity
https://seeds.ca/schoolfoodgardens/resources-for-educators/

 

 

United States

 

Shelburne Farms
https://shelburnefarms.org/educators/resources/cultivating-joy-and-wonder-educating-sustainability-early-childhood-through

Wonderful lesson plans, especially for the younger grades. Need to sign up to get the PDF. More resources from Shelburne Farms here: https://shelburnefarms.org/educators/resources

 

The Edible Schoolyard Project
https://edibleschoolyard.org/resource-search
A well-known school garden program based in California. Searchable lesson database.

 

Wisconsin School Garden Network
https://wischoolgardens.org/search-our-library/

 

Life Lab
https://www.lifelab.org/school-garden-resources-all?

 

 

General Gardening Resources

 

You Grow Girl
https://www.yougrowgirl.com/resources/ 
general garden info (not lesson plans) - good grow guides for different plants
https://www.yougrowgirl.com/the-lazy-gardeners-seed-starting-chart/ 
seed starting chart (helps plan when to start seedlings)

 

Seeds of Diversity
https://seeds.ca/schoolfoodgardens/how-to-guides/

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