Find
Fruitful Classroom Exchanges
Connect
your students with classrooms that garden in another hemisphere,
or find garden buddies close
by that
you
didn't
know
were there!
There are many e-mail pals listed in our School
Garden Registry. Below are some highlights:
Edison
Middle School (NJ) - This class is interested
in a seed-collecting project that has a ready-made lesson plan for
those who'd like to participate!
Camelot
Elementary (FL) - An award-winning gardening
and habitat program wants to share experiences, seeds, and photos with
other gardeners.
Resources
for Health (AZ) - This mostly homeschooled
group is interested in swapping seeds and gardening experiences.
Program
for Academically Talented Students Center (FL)
- K-8 "naturalist activists" wish to swap seeds, experiences,
and their hand-made flower greeting cards.
Francis
Mallory Elementary School (VA) - Primary students
are looking to exchange data with other classes or environmental
science clubs.
Porta
Central School (IL) - This school garden club
(grades 3-6) seeks pals for trading seeds, ideas, and experiences.
If your garden or habitat is not already represented in this international
database, register it now!
You’ve
decided you want to begin a youth gardening program…. what’s
next? Thoughtful
planning is critical to sustaining your program over time. This
month we share some tried-and-true advice for launching and
maintaining a youth garden program in hopes of inspiring the
growth of gardens across the country during the 2008-2009 school
year. Let’s get kids and teens gardening in every community!
Looking
for a "healthy" and alluring option for raising funds for
your school? NGA endorses the 
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