Designing Your School Garden and Crop Planning
When: Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Support Material 

• Workshop recording (YouTube)
• Workshop presentation (pdf)
• Feedback survey: Tell us what you thought!
• Resources:
  • Worksheet 2: Designing a School Garden
  • Learning from the Land Toolkit
  • Kids Gardening: Seeds of Success Toolkit
  • School Garden Project: Increasing Inclusion in the Garden
  • Megan Zeni’s websites: https://theclassroomgardener.com/ and https://meganzeni.com/
  • Starting a Schoolyard Market Garden
  • School Year Gardens – A Toolkit to Grow Food from September to June
  • TEGS Garden Design Plan
  • How to start a school garden guide
  • Whole Kids: School garden lesson plans
  • KidsGardening: School garden planning
  • Outdoor Learning Store: Episode 04 podcast: Gardening as an entry point to thinking big, with outdoor and garden educator Kaci Rae Christopher, author of The School Garden Curriculum
  • Life Lab: School Garden Resources for Educators
• February 23 – Discussion Group notes (pdf)

 

 

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Classroom Growing and Building the Garden
When: Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Support Material 

• Workshop recording (YouTube)
• Workshop presentation (pdf)
• Feedback survey: Tell us what you thought!
• March 16 – Discussion Group notes (pdf)
• Resources:
  • Worksheet – Crop Planning details
  • Curriculum connections: In the Garden
  • Farm to School BC: Crop Planning page
    • Spring Harvest Crop Cards
    • Northern BC Calendar
    • Interior BC Calendar
    • Coastal BC Calendar
  • Growth mindset posters: Fixed vs growth mindset and Under the surface
  • Starting seedlings in your classroom webinar (YouTube)

 

 

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Outdoor Planting

When: Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Support Material

• Workshop recording (YouTube)
• Workshop presentation (pdf)
• Feedback survey: Tell us what you thought!
• Resources:
  • Crop Planning Resources
  • Spring Activities in the Garden
  • Journaling in the Garden: ABCDE’s of Scientific Drawing
  • Garden Observation Sheet
  • Plant Signage Lesson
  • Season Extension: Blog and video about using Remay/floating row cover in a garden

 

 

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Summer Maintenance and Volunteer Management
When: Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Support Material 

• Workshop recording (YouTube)
• Workshop presentation (pdf)
• Feedback survey: Tell us what you thought!
• Resources
  • F2SBC Crop Planning Calendar and Crop Cards
  • F2SBC Seed saving crop cards
  • F2SBC Summer maintenance guide
  • Example of Vancouver’s summer watering program model
  • Master Gardener Website

• NOTE: Discussion group will be held next month June 15th. Postponed due to the F2SBC Conference.

 

 

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Spring Harvest and Celebration
When: Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Support Material 

• Workshop recording (YouTube)
• Workshop presentation (pdf)
• Feedback survey: Tell us what you thought!
• Resources
  • Tasting Salad Greens Observation Chart
  • Video of elementary school and high school garden connections
  • Guide to building food forests

 

 

Harvesting and Seed Saving
When: Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Support Material 

• Workshop recording (YouTube)
• Workshop presentation (pdf)
• Feedback survey: Tell us what you thought!
• Resources
  • Seed Fundraisers
  • Seed Saving Crop Cards
  • Farm Folk City Folk Bite Sized Lesson Plans
  • Fall Harvest Crop Cards
  • Hands on Food
  • Food Art Lesson Plan
  • Stone Soup

 

 

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Winterizing Your Garden and Long-Term Sustainability
When: Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Support Material

• Workshop recording (YouTube)
• Workshop presentation (pdf)
• Feedback survey: Tell us what you thought!
• Resources: a jam-packed list of resources and links (pdf)

 

 

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Additional School Garden Support Resources