utilizing the garden
utilizing the garden
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Once you have a community garden, what can you do with it? The resources on this page will jumpstart your brainstorming for programs and other ways to use the garden to strengthen your community.
This database displays topics and lessons that teachers and librarians can use alongside their community garden. For example, within a garden students can learn about climate change, geology, and the ways humans actions affect the environment. Today's Science features resources on all of these topics!
This database is all about finding the right book at the right time. Users can search for unique characteristics, such as children's books about gardening published in 2020.
This monograph provides an overview of horticultural therapy, which could easily tie into a program utilizing the community garden or potentially create an opreach opportunity.
Not only is the garden a good place for the community to learn how to grow their own food and new skills, it’s also a rehabilitation center for those who have health problems such as dementia. Many patients have gained a better quality of life thanks to their local garden and outreach programs. Check out this book to learn more!
This journal provides a wealth of information about developing educational programs, among other relevant topics. Being familiar with this resource and the information it provides will help you to utilize the garden as an educational resource by creating programs which benefit the community physically and intellectually.
This journal draws attention to the changes within the public library that are needed to better serve each community. In one article, Food Deserts, Libraries, and Urban Communities: What is the Connection?, it focuses on the Cleveland Public Library and how they used a community garden to help others in the midst of a food shortage.
In order to teach and encourage the community to grow their own food and understand where it comes from, the Huntsville Library created a “seed garden” that everyone is allowed to check out, provided that they grow their seed at home and return produced seed back to the library so that the cycle can continue.
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