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.

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