Located at UC Santa Cruz, Life Lab helps teachers with school gardens and hands-on science programs using school gardening curriculum, providing fieldtrips, and educator workshops, and more.

An excellent source for training educators on teaching youth about gardening is the “Kids in Gardens” workshop put on by The Watershed Project. These classes are held year-round throughout the Bay Area. Visit their website for the latest class schedule.

• To help correlate youth gardening activities with the academic content standards visit Content Standards.
• For science standards, kindergarten through grade twelve, visit Science Standards.
• For a guide showing how garden-based education (GBE) strongly supports the state’s academic content standards take a look at A Child’s Garden of Standards.

The School Garden Network serves as a central organization to distribute school garden resources and support throughout the state.