Week 1 - Welcome back everyone. Hope you all enjoyed your summer. For those without a school garden who would like to know how to get started please read: How to Start and Maintain a School Garden. For those returning to an existing garden there is much to do. Preparing the beds for seed sowing is probably [...]

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End of summer also means end of the cycle. Plants have flowered, fruited and are putting out seeds to ensure their survival. Students returning at the start of the new term should be on the lookout for seed-bearing fruits and dried flower heads.

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Grants, fundraisers and donations all come in handy to help our school gardens grow. While the success of donation drives and fundraisers depend to a large extent on people you know and interact with, like parents of students, local merchants and business houses, grants are more formal in nature. They are awarded by either public [...]

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This is brilliant! Birds a problem in the garden? Make a bird “scarecrow” with feathers and a potato; hang it in the garden. RENEE BONNAFON / rbonnafon@sacbee.com Click here for complete article

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L.A. Unified’s gardening program may be uprooted The effort that has flourished among students could get cut amid the district’s budget woes. By Jennifer Oldham, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer The seeds of a thousand lessons are sown in five acres of North Hollywood dirt, tended by a man named Mud. Here in this little-known oasis, Mud Baron and [...]

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Kids’ summer garden project Produce being gathered for school soup day Posted By JEREMY ASHLEY, INTELLIGENCER.CA A small group of west hill youngsters have found a way to enjoy the summer weather while making their school and community a better place. Several times a week, a few of the neighbourhood’s kids wander down to the vegetable garden in front [...]

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Edible School Gardens by Bess Mucke, slowfood.com Slow Food convivia from Sicily to Veneto have developed more than 130 school vegetable plots across Italy in recent years, involving more than 5000 young students and their families and 1,500 teachers in growing produce and taste education programs. Home to thirty-three of these gardens, Piedmont has been the region quickest [...]

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