Kids growing food with biodiversity, wildlife, & climate in mind.
Wild School Gardens Guide – updated guide including seven pages of suggestions for educators, links to resources on core topics and online learning/professional development, and suggested activities to get you started.
More Resources:
Looking Forward in the Wild School Garden – age-appropriate exploration of climate, biodiversity, and food
The Why and How of Farm to School & Preschool – a quick guide with resources for digging deeper.
Exploring Foodshed Health Field Guide – a foodshed approach to accompany our Wild School Gardens Guide and especially suited to climate, biodiversity, and conservation education. Based on our local “San Juan Mountain Watch Field Guide” for SW Colorado foodsheds.
Installing and Using a Rain Gauge with Young Children PowerPoint pdf
Frost and Freeze in the School Garden
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Wild school gardens are those where kids have the chance to observe and learn about biodiversity, both wild and domestic, and how it provides ecosystem services that healthy food production depends upon. Understanding of the interrelationships between our food choices, biodiversity, wildlife, and climate can be enhanced by these activities. In addition, Citizen Science monitoring can provide an opportunity to learn while contributing to scientific understanding of these issues.
Endless Possibilities
- Bird, bat, butterfly, pollinator houses
- Counting earthworms, birds, ladybugs
- Attracting pollinators, beneficial insects, raptors
- Recording rainfall, blossoming dates, first and last frosts
The Wild School Gardens Handbook has been largely replaced by the new Wild School Gardens Guide above, but does include a few resources that users of that original handbook may want to access.
