How to Create a School Garden program
b"How to start a school garden program\\n\\n\\n\\nFor this week\\u2019s episode I reached out to Kaci Rae Chirstopher, the author of the new book The School Garden Curriculum, about how to create a school garden program\\n\\n\\n\\nKaci is the volunteer Farm and Garden Educator for Oregon's Redband Ranch. She was also previously the School Garden Coordinator for the Springwater Environmental Sciences School and the Outdoor Educator for ERA. \\n\\n\\n\\nHer passion is fostering a healthy land ethic, personal empowerment, and environmental literacy in children of all ages through outdoor immersion and skill building.\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\nAs a bonus to today\\u2019s episode I\\u2019m going to be giving away a free copy of the book The School Garden Curriculum to a lucky member on our discord channel. \\n\\n\\n\\nAll you need to do to be eligible to win is to send me a message via Discord and if you win I\\u2019ll either send you out a hard copy of the book if you live in the US or Canada, or a digital copy to your inbox if you live anywhere else in the world.\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\nToday we\\u2019re going to break down what it takes to get a school garden program started, how to overcome some of the common hurdles and pushback to keeping it running, explore some simple lesson plans to get you started and challenge you to push the boundaries of what a school garden program can be and subjects you can explore with a garden classroom.\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\nGet the resource packet for this episode!\\n\\n\\n\\nJoin the discord discussion channel to answer the weekly questions and learn new skills with the whole community\\n\\n\\n\\nLinks:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nhttps://newsociety.com/books/s/the-school-garden-curriculum\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nhttps://www.theschoolgardencurriculum.com/\\n\\n\\n\\nFor more episodes about gardening, check these out\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nhttps://regenerativeskills.com/abundantedge-lee-reich/\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nhttps://regenerativeskills.com/steps-to-food-security-saving-seeds-with-james-ulager-author-of-beginning-seed-saving-for-the-home-gardener/\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nhttps://regenerativeskills.com/abundantedge-zach-loeks/\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nCheck out the full archives of the podcast here\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nhttps://regenerativeskills.com/podcast-2/"