School Garden 101 Series: Springtime Planning & Preparing for Planting in School Gardens [4.13.20]

This webinar has already taken place. You can watch a recording of the webinar below.

School Garden 101 Series: Springtime Planning & Preparing for Planting in School Gardens

The Massachusetts Farm to School Network’s Education Working Group presents Farm to School Basics: A Webinar Series for Garden Educators in Mass., a five-part webinar series taking place throughout the spring. (Part 3/5) 

Presenters: Calin Duke (Farm to School Manager for Sustainable Nantucket) & Hope Guardenier (Executive Director for School Sprouts). 

Spring is the perfect time for school garden educators to think about (or revisit) your goals for your garden beds and how you want to use them. What you come up with can really inform your garden planning and planting. On this webinar, we’ll take a “backwards planning” approach and discuss how your plans can shift to support your goals. For example, do you want to be taste testing in the garden? If so, what are the recipes you’ll want to use and what plants will you need to grow? What would the planting and harvesting schedule look like to reach your goal? Will your ingredients be ready to harvest when you think you’d need them? We’ll go into all this and much more! 

Download the presentation slides here.

Additional Resources

• How to Make a Garden Dibble Video (Calin Duke / Sustainable Nantucket)
• How to Make Seed Tape for Easy Sowing (Gardening Australia)
• How to Make Seed Balls (Hope Guardenier / School Sprouts)