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Sustainable School Gardens

Does your school need help in setting up an edible school garden?

Dee's practical gardening workshops will inspire and upskill potential gardeners at school.

Dee author of Growing Gardeners and Gardening for Planet Earth can visit your school to help you get started.

Dee can Facilitate School Gardening Workshops Or School Garden Consultation for a Group of Teachers.

School Gardening Workshop

Dee Pigneguy author of Gardening For Planet Earth and Growing Gardeners is available to provide practical, enjoyable organic gardening support and workshops for your school. If you are committed to developing organic school gardens and integrating them into the curriculum her unique, style will help you whatever stage you are at.

Her step by step guide to starting the school garden will help individual teachers or groups to come to grips with what seems like a daunting task. Learn how to design and create school kitchen gardens.

Dee will cover:
  • Defining the Goals
  • Choosing a suitable School site and practical ways to design the garden to fit the school grounds
  • Getting started and setting up a school garden
  • Plants for a purpose—Vegetable gardens, herbs, food forests, subtropicals or small edible fruits
  • Resources for making beds, worm farms, compost systems, tools and equipment and tanks
  • Using the garden to teach—Curriculum implications
  • What school gardens can do for you, the students, and the school community

Outcomes:
  • Help you to design garden spaces and planting patterns to facilitate learning in your outdoor garden classroom. The Garden as a living laboratory
  • Provide necessary skills and contacts to enable you to proceed with setting up a school garden

Gardening Workshop Details:
  • 2 hour workshop at your school.
  • You set the time
  • I will need a projector for a powerpoint presentation and a white board.
  • Access to school grounds
  • Cost: $50.00

Please contact us about your school garden workshop  

Dee helps Birdwood School to set up an edible garden

School Garden Consultation

Dee can visit your school to provide practical help working with students to sow, and plant or help tackle garden problems. She is available to teach new gardening skills or support teachers with curriculum integration.

A morning or afternoon session costs: $50.00

Please contact us about your school garden consultation  
 
   
 
Dee's organic gardening workshops will teach you how to establish your new organic garden using Sheet Mulching.
It is fast and easy and saves digging or building compost heaps. These gardens are very productive.
 
 
The photos show you the steps to build raised beds using sheet mulching.