Growing Sustainable Children is a resource for anyone already teaching in a gardening program, for those starting a program, or for anyone working with children in a garden or other outdoor setting. The book includes a detailed age-appropriate curriculum and activity listings from nursery and kindergarten through high school, as well as an overview of the history of gardening education.

Two school garden pioneers offer parents, teachers, and school administrators everything they need to know to build school gardens and to develop the programs that support them. Includes strategies, to-do lists, sample letters, detailed lesson plans, and tricks of the trade for developing school garden programs for grades K-8.

Outdoor Classrooms: A Handbook for School Gardens is for teachers and home educators who want to incorporate education at all levels of the school curriculum with an emphasis on setting up edible gardens teaching children about growing food, food security and economics, human and planetary health, permaculture and sustainability. Includes the history of school gardens, as well as a plan for developing a supported school garden.

This book explores the urban school garden as a bridge between environmental action and thought. Through a history of school garden practice rooted in Eastern industrial cities, to case studies from four Pacific Rim regions, this book examines the practice and culture of the urban school garden as a central symbol for environmental learning.

A child and grandfather till, plant, and harvest fruits, vegetables, flowers, herbs, and grains in a tongue twisting picture book. Includes online tips for starting your own garden.

A fictionalized account of how plant scientist George Washington Carver came to an Alabama school and taught the children how to grow plants and reap the rewards of nature's bounty. Includes factual notes about George Washington Carver.

At an elementary school in Santa Fe, the bell rings for recess and kids fly out the door to check what's happening in their garden. As the seasons turn, everyone has a part to play in making the garden flourish. From choosing and planting seeds in the spring to releasing butterflies in the summer to harvesting in the fall to protecting the beds for the winter.

This colorful book takes students on a ramble through a school yard garden--past the seeding beds, along the compost bin, and over to the bird house and bird bath. Along the way, children learn what insects, animals, and plants need to thrive and discover the fun of observing and recording it all.

Discover how George Washington Carver went from a slave to an innovator of agricultural science in this illustrated picture book. Born into slavery, George Washington Carver went on to become the most prominent black scientist of the early twentieth century.

This is a story about a a class that creates a vegetable garden on their school's rooftop. It takes supplies and hard work; it takes a lot of learning; and it takes a whole school--a whole community--coming together to help.