School Gardens in London, Canada ` For more information, Please see websites below: ` Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ` Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ` Free School Gardening Art Posters http://scribd.com/doc/239851159` ` Companion Planting Increases Food Production from School Gardens http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ` Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ` City Chickens for your Organic School Garden http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ` Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide http://scribd.com/doc/239851110

1. School Gardens
London Community Resource Centre
Linda Davies
Brittany McMullan
February 7, 2014

2. Agenda
Benefits of School Yard Gardens
Recent Growth in London
How to Start Your Garden
Community Partners
Resources

3. Benefits of School Yard Gardens
FoodShare Ontario:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgzbYBznyc0#t=55

4. Benefits of School Yard Gardens
Essential Life Skills
Hand-on learning
Integrated with curriculum
“Field to Table Schools works
with educators, parents, and
students from JK through Grade
12, to implement hands-on
cooking and gardening activities..”
-- FoodShare Ontario

5. Benefits of School Yard Gardens
How food choices affect
environment, health, and
surrounding
communities
Opportunity to bring
communities together
“kids + gardens + healthy food
= stronger communities”
-- Richmond Schoolyard Garden Society

6. Recent Growth in London
‘Seed to Table’ at University Heights P.S
• LCRC
•Covent Garden Market
•Growing Chefs
•Thames Valley School Board

7. Recent Growth in London
Outdoor Classroom and Sensory Garden
of the ‘Knowledge Garden’

8. How to Start Your Garden
 Buy-in from stakeholders
Principal, teachers, school board,
students, and community members
 Create a workable design
Size and type of garden bed
 Appropriate location
Sun, Water, and Soil
 Fits in to current schoolyard
environment

9. Community Partners
London Middlesex Master Gardeners
http://www.londonmiddlesexmastergardeners.com/
Fanshawe College Landscape Design Program
http://www.fanshawec.ca/programs-courses/full-time-programs/dls4-intro
TD Friends of the Environment Foundation
https://fef.td.com/
COPP’S Buildall
http://www.coppsbuildall.com/
Growing Chefs
http://growingchefsontario.ca/
Heeman’s Nursery
http://www.heeman.ca/

10. Resources
FoodShare Ontario
http://www.foodshare.net/school-groups-and-researchers
Richmond School Yard Society
http://www.kidsinthegarden.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=2
Edible School Yard Project
http://edibleschoolyard.org/
City Schoolyard Gardens
http://www.cityschoolyardgarden.org/kids-blog/

11. www.lcrc.on.ca
Thank you
Questions and Discussion