planning your school garden (continued)
- What are your short-term goals for the garden? What are your long-term goals for the garden? - Where is funding coming from for gardening supplies?
testings and/or educational experiences for students. Gardens can also be a great way to get the community involved. Reach out to your local gardening store or see if you have a master gardener amongst your staff members or parents/guardians who can provide helpful tips and tricks to ensure gardening success! Also, Indiana Grown for Schools has a School Garden Toolkit to help walk schools through the process from planning to harvesting school gardens. promote your program Once you have your garden plan in place, make sure to share this with the school community! Share all of our success both big and small via social media, school newsletters, or other outlets where parents, families, students, and other members of the community can hear about the awesome projects you are implementing. We love to hear and share what schools are doing with farm to school. Please send pictures and stories to IDOE’s farm to school specialist, Ashley Heller, at aheller@doe.in.gov .
When you are first starting a garden at your school, the task can seem very daunting. As mentioned previously, start small! The garden does not need to feed the whole school. The garden can be small and provide food for taste
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