School & Youth Programs
Our Kansas School Garden guide will help administrators, teachers, staff, volunteers, and garden organizations successfully grow and teach from a school garden. As school gardens have become more popular, there has been an increase in resources to help promote and educate in a school garden setting. When planning your school garden, don't forget to consider our Kansas climate and how you will work around the school year.
This publication includes considerations for starting a garden, many basic gardening resources, and links to many curriculum options.
This publication provides a wide range of gardening templates that revolve around the Kansas gardening season and the school year. The plant choices section helps choose good plant varieties and suggests learning connections.
Food Safety for School and Community Gardens (pdf)
From Greenhouse to Cafeteria: A Toolkit for Greenhouse Programs (UNL) (pdf)
Giving Grove Primary & Secondary Student Lessons
Greenhouse Manual: An Introductory Guide for Educators (pdf)
Junior Master Gardeners
Kansas Garden Guide
KACEE Garden Gate Resources; Curriculum (doc)
Kansas City Community Gardens Schoolyard Gardens Resources
KidsGardening.org
Life Lab
Planning for School Garden Success (video)
School Garden Support Organization Network
Pre-K - 5th:
FRESHFARM Foodprints
FoodCorps Lesson Plans (pdf)
Food Literacy Toolkit: One Hen
Food Literacy Toolkit: The Mangrove Tree
Growing Minds Market Manual (pdf)
K-12:
Big Ideas: Linking Food, Culture, Health, & Environment (pdf, Center for Ecoliteracy)
The Food Project Curriculum
Growing Minds Lesson Plans
National Ag in the Classroom
Nourish Food Systems Curriculum
Middle & High School:
Discovering Our Food System (Cornell)
FoodSpan: Teaching the Food System from Farm to Fork
Local Food Economy & Access Simulation (pdf)