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Resources
There are many free and low cost resources to help beginner gardeners get started growing vegetables and other plants in containers. The following list represents a sampling of what is available.
Web Sites:
- Home and Garden Information Center (University of MD Extension)
- Grow It Eat It(University of MD Extension)
- Montgomery County Master Gardeners (University of MD Extension)
- National Gardening Association Kids' Gardening Programs
- Audubon Naturalist Society GreenKids
- GardenABCs: The School Garden Share-Site
- Compost and Worm Castings from Growing Soul (info@growingSOUL.org or 301-537-7422 for more information)
Possible Places to Visit:
- Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Community (M-NCPPC) Community Garden
- Brookside Gardens
- Montgomery County Master Gardeners Demonstration Garden
Book list:
McGee and Stuckey.The Bountiful Container. Workman Publishing, NY: 2002.
Bucklin-Sporer and Pringle. How to Grow a School Garden. Timber Press, Portland, OR: 2010.
Scott Appell (ed). The Potted Garden. Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY: 2001.
Kenin, Justine. We Grew It, Let's Eat It. Tenley Circle Press, 2010.
Krezel, Cindy. Kids' Container Gardening. Ball Publishing, 2005.
Lovejoy, Sharon. Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots: Activities to do in the Garden. Workman Publishing, 1999.
Hannemann, Hulse, Johnson, Kurland et al. Gardening with Children. Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY: 2007.
Greening School Grounds: Creating Habitats for Learning, Grant T. and Littlejohn} G. (New Society Publishers} Green Teacher Magazine} 2001).
Danks, Sharon Gamson. Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation. New Village Press. 2010.
Instructional Resources:
- Growing Healthy Habits, Food Supplement Nutrition Education Program (FSNEP)
- National Gardening Association Kids' Gardening
- Cornell Garden-Based Learning
- The Edible Schoolyard
- Junior Master Gardener
- American Horticultural Society Partnership for Plant-Based Education
- EarthBOX Curriculum
- Leafy Greens Council