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Engaging Schools in Garden Preparation and Collaboration for Community Wellness

Learn how to identify partners and school responsibilities to prepare and collaborate on creating a successful gardening project. Explore grant opportunities, involve teachers and families, and work together with local organizations for a thriving garden. Encourage whole-school and community involvement for a meaningful experience. Contact local programs and gardening clubs for support and volunteers. Ensure year-round participation for a sustainable garden impact.

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Engaging Schools in Garden Preparation and Collaboration for Community Wellness

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  1. Identifying Partners and School Responsibilities

  2. Getting Started • Garden Preparation • Collaborate • Site Responsibility

  3. Garden Preparation • Encourage sites to explore gardening grant opportunities starting local and working their way out • Existing (you never know) • Local “Mom and Pop” hardware stores • Local Gardening Club Scholarships • National Gardening Grants (Home Depot, National Gardening Association).

  4. Prepare Garden • Gardening area should be prepared before classes • Youth, teachers, and families should be involved • It doesn’t have to be overwhelming!

  5. Collaboration • Work with schools to get participation with garden maintenance "Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."...Rudyard Kipling

  6. Collaborate • To work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort Team Up Work Together Join Forces Participate

  7. Team Up • Contact 4-H and Master Gardener programs for possible involvement. • Team teaching opportunities. • Local Gardening Clubs may have volunteers. - Volunteers to help school with garden. • Make sure teacher is supportive of classroom responsibilities outside of EFTG lessons. -Gardening responsibilities.

  8. Working Together • Encourage involvement of whole school and community. • Principals • Teachers and staff • Parent involvement • Community garden leaders

  9. Join Forces • Teaching and encouraging garden maintenance. - Involve other grades • Before and after school groups • Parent volunteers and teachers over breaks • Turn into a community garden during the summer

  10. Participate • EFTG requires participation from everyone involved outside of lessons for the curriculum to go well. • Email reminders for teachers to take kids out • Schools thinking a head for garden maintenance over breaks and summer • All year long!

  11. Kansas City Area • Kansas City Community Gardens • Master Gardeners of Greater Kansas City • Family Nutrition Education Program • Greater Kansas City Health Care Foundation • Jackson County Extension Council • Jackson County 4-H • Phoenix Family Housing Corporation • Local Investment Commission • Independence Health Department • Mattie Rhodes Center

  12. Thanks! Rachael McGinnis Millsap mcginnisr@missouri.edu

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