Setting up a School Garden resource
This PDF resource helps you think about the logistics of setting up a school garden. School gardens are an integral part...

In this section, you will find resources for projects that will allow you to get growing in your school grounds.
Growing within your school can help to teach children about where their food comes from, whilst also raising awareness of the seasonal nature of food. Gardening can also be linked to a wide range of curriculum subjects that will enable you to cover topics such as life cycles, nutrition and plants and animals.
This PDF resource helps you think about the logistics of setting up a school garden. School gardens are an integral part...
This PDF resource guides you through the process of building a wooden 'potato pyramid' planter. Potatoes are...
This PDF resource gives you information on harvesting and pressing fresh apple juice Apples are a wonderful fruit and...
A short film featuring Jason O'Rourke, headteacher at Washingborough Academy. In this film, Jason O'Rourke talks...
Greenfield Community School Gardener talks about planting sweetcorn. In this short film made by the school, Jen from Greenfields...
Greenfield Community School Gardener talks about planting potatoes. In this short film made by the school, Jen from Greenfields...
Greenfield Community School Gardener talks about planting pumpkin seeds. In this short film made by the school, Jen from...
A short podcast featuring tips from UK gardener Liz Woodward Rupert Aker from the Soil Association's Food for Life...
A short PDF resource providing ideas on generating discussion around the importance of seeds. This short project looks...
This PDF resource talks you through the process of building your own rolling garden. In many schools with hard and paved...
Don't be put off growing because of limited space. In this case study, teachers in Oslo learn how to build a rolling...
This PDF case study describes how the Waldorf School in Brno, Czech Republic set up their garden. In 2010, the Waldorf...
Grandparent Gardening Week has taken off in the Czech Republic. We look at the project here. Grandparent Gardening Week...
This case study describe the link that Københavns Skolehaver (Copenhagen School Gardens) has with school children. Copenhagen...
This case study looks at how children can get involved with Cologne's Edible City project. In Cologne’s Edible...
This case study looks at strawberry harvesting in Hamburg On the Gut Wulksfelde organic farm in Hamburg, children are...
This PDF resource gets children thinking about different plants and what their seeds look like. This short quiz gets children...