Our 2010 book, How to Grow a School Garden: A Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers, covers everything you need to know about starting and maintaining a school garden. Written by our executive director Arden Bucklin-Sporer and director of programs Rachel Pringle, How to Grow a School Garden has been hailed as an indispensable resource … Read more

Education Outside’s Lesson Pathway is a curriculum framework that allows educators to plan a comprehensive and sequenced outdoor education program by selecting lessons that are nested into a larger, coherent structure. It is arranged by themes (Basics, Soil, Plants, Creatures, Ecology, Materials, and Food) that can then be organized into an academic schedule, building the … Read more

We’ve compiled these resources over years of work in the field. Help us keep them available to teachers and students all over the country.Grants for School Gardens (cash & in-kind) California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom’s Literacy for Life Grant: Literacy for Life’s $500 grants are designed to initiate new projects or expand existing … Read more

We’ve compiled these resources over years of work in the field. Help us keep them available to teachers and students all over the country. Lesson Pathway Our Lesson Pathway is a curriculum framework that allows educators to plan a sequenced outdoor education program by selecting lessons that are nested into a larger structure. It is … Read more