School Garden Resources for Agents

These resources are brought to you by your School Garden Team:

  • Carin Booth (boothc@uga.edu)
  • Richard Evans (revans90@uga.edu)
  • Becky Griffin (beckygri@uga.edu)
  • Alicia Holloway (aholloway@uga.edu)
  • Ashley Hoppers (aahoppers@uga.edu)
  • Karol Kelly (karolk@uga.edu)
  • Kevin Livingston (kliving@uga.edu)
  • James Morgan (morganjl@uga.edu)
  • Campbell Vaughn (ecvaughn@uga.edu)

What is Possible in the School Garden

The PowerPoint by Becky Griffin visits several successful school gardens showing what is possible in a school garden.  Download HERE.

The accompanying hands-on activity allows participates to creatively think of a way to use beans in the school garden. Download HERE.

Steps in Starting a School Garden

This PowerPoint by Becky Griffin closely follows the UGA publication Steps in Starting a School Garden.   The presentation is geared towards groups thinking of starting a school garden or are in the beginning stages of planning their garden.  Download HERE.

The activity to go with the presentation asks the participant to design a small garden and list the steps to take to ensure the success of the garden.  This can be done in groups.  Download the worksheet HERE.

Planting a School Garden

This presentation from James Morgan gives a step-by-step explanation on planting a school garden for success. Download the Powerpoint HERE.

The hands-on activity involves seed starting.  Download HERE.

Garden-Based Learning 

This Powerpoint from Alicia Holloway goes through ways to incorporate the garden into classroom curriculum. Download HERE.

The hands-on activity gives participants to work on integrating bean soup into the classroom.  Download HERE.

Integrated Pest Management for the School Garden

This Powerpoint from Karol Kelly teaches the basic steps of IPM especially for the school garden.  The hands-on activity is attached at the end of the presentation.  Download HERE.

 

These two publications are popular resources.  Click on the photos to download the documents.

 

Do not forget about the many resources found at the UGA school garden resources webpage.