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Youth Gardening


  • America the Beautiful Fund
    Offers grants of 100 to 1000 free seed packets to garden projects across the United States.

  • Arizona 4-H Youth Gardening
    Our mission is to offer resources, training materials and networking opportunities to those involved in developing Arizona's youth gardens and to enhance their success and impact.

  • British Broadcasting Corporation: Gardening with Children
    The whole family can share the joy of gardening. Entertain your children with a range of educational activities that have been developed, in collaboration with the RHS, for four to seven-year olds.

  • Celebrating Wildflowers: Just for Kids
    Celebrate wildflowers and native plants with games, coloring pages and fun activities. A link to teacher resources is included.

  • Garden Botany
    Everything you would want to know about plant names, plant classification, plant structures and their function and reproduction and propagation.

  • Garden Mosaics
    Connecting youth and elders to investigate the mosaic of plants, people and cultures in gardens.

  • Garden-Based Learning
    Resources for educators, volunteers and parents working with youth.

  • Great Plant Escape
    Help Detective LePlant and his partners Bud and Sprout unlock the mysteries of plant life

  • Growing Connection
    The Growing Connection engages children in the science of growing food, the experience of sharing their culture and experiments using modern information technology.

  • Kid's Gardening .org
    One of the best kids gardening sites on the internet. Classroom projects, lesson plans, garden grants, actvities and resources

  • Let's Talk About Insects
    Let's Talk About Insects is designed to help students gain an appreciation of insects; learn how insects grow and develop (metamorphosis), and learn the importance of insects in our environment.

  • My First Garden
    This guide features garden basics, gardening fundamentals, a teacher's guide and a garden gallery.

  • National Junior Horticulture Association
    The NJHA was founded in 1934 and was the first organization in the world dedicated solely to youth and horticulture. It is a national program that helps young people develop skills in and obtain an understanding of horticulture.

  • Rodale Institute's Kidsregen.org
    Gardening and environmental resources, lesson plans and activities for kids

  • School Garden Network
    The Network's mission to create and sustain California school gardens to enhance academic achievement, a healthy lifestyle, environmental stewardship and community and social development. Information on planning and designing school gardens, funding, recruiting volunteers and linking school gardens to academic content.

  • School Gardening
    Learn how to integrate a garden into your school's curriculum

  • School Gardens: Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden
    Gardens for Learning is a 96 page downloadable comprehensive guidebook that provides a strong foundation to support the growing school garden movement.

  • Using Live Insects in Elementary Classrooms
    A program dedicated to introducing health topics to children in kindergarten through third grade. The result is a printable collection of twenty integrated lessons with science and math activities that use live insects. Information includes twenty lesson plans, insect information sheets, insect rearing sheets and a bibliography of lesson plans.

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