How to Grow a School Garden: A Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers by Arden Bucklin-Sporer
	List Price:   $24.95 Unit Price:   $19.96 You Save:   $4.99 (20%) ISBN-10:   1604690003 ISBN-13:   9781604690002 Publisher:   Workman; Timber Press Category:   Agriculture Pub. Date:   June 2010 Pages:   224 Format:   Trade Paper Ages:   Adults to
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CFAITC 11/2010 The more time children spend indoors, the less time they spend outdoors, often with dangerous results-obesity, attention disorders, and a disconnect from nature. Parents, teachers, and caretakers have a responsibility to connect childrento the natural world by teaching the values of environmental stewardship and the importance of nutrition and health.How to Grow a School Garden is a comprehensive guide to developing, planning, building, and maintaining a school garden. This hands-on approach includes all the information necessary to make school garden projects accessible, inexpensive, and sustainable. For parents, the authors offer detailed advice on how to secure support from the administration, how to raise money, how build a kid-friendly garden, how to manage volunteers, and how to ensure a smooth transition at the beginning of each school year. Teachers will gain valuable lesson plans and activities for a range of ages.Reclaiming a piece of neglected yard and transforming it into an ecologically rich garden is one of the most beneficial activities that parents, teachers, and children can undertake together. How to Grow a School Garden gives both teachers and parents everything they need to begin building a productive and engaging schoolnbsp; arden.nbsp