Books
How to Grow A School Garden
Bucklin-Sporer, A., Pringle, R. (2010). How to grow a school garden: A complete guide for parents and teachers. Timber Press. https://lccn.loc.gov/2009051601
This book is an instructive guide on how to begin, sustain, and maintain a school garden. Suitable for educators working with both very young students to older students, this book is a valuable reference for not only the actual gardening, but also contains instructions on how to garner support, how to introduce the idea for the garden to administration, and how to go about securing funding.
Multimedia
Connecting Kids to Nature: Creating and Maintaining School Gardens
Native Plant Society of New Jersey. (2024). Connecting Kids to Nature: Creating and Maintaining School Gardens. [Video]. Youtube. https://youtu.be/QGTDH1Gdyug?si=n93ahNywxM_8l55M
This presentation encourages fellow educators to engage in personalized, hands-on learning in nature. It introduces New Jersey's Native Plant School Guide, discusses the benefits of educating students about nature while in nature, as well as detailing some of the plants that can be planted and in order to create pollinator gardens, and how those gardens can be used to teach students about the importance of ecological stewardship.
Growing a Greener World
Lamp'l, J. (2024). Growing a Greener World-Episode 307. [Video]. Youtube. https://youtu.be/qzPrH8rqrJ8?si=w5tVbwpQre_oeGlC
This video focuses on schools such as the Ford School, in Georgia, which began its outdoor garden seventeen years ago with one garden bed and two hundred dollars. Today, the Ford school is a pioneer of the outdoor garden school movement, with gardens that cover twenty acres and include multiple wildlife habitats, such as pollinator gardens, edible gardens and a pond. Different disciplines, such as math and music, extend lessons outdoors, to include the natural world in both the learning process, but also in the experience of school as a community that is a part of the natural enviroment.