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Offers a working farm and garden site for school children to visit and learn about garden ecology and growing food, and offers hands-on training for college students, teachers, parents and volunteers who work with school gardens.

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

UCANR's program to build connections and collaborations in agriculture, youth development, and nutrition education. Includes a variety of resources including:

• Activities for Kids
• School Garden Connection Topics
• Recycling

• To help correlate youth gardening activities with the academic content standards visit Content 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.

You can ask Master Gardeners your general gardening questions through the hotline on Monday through Friday from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm at 408-282-3105 or post inquiries online.

If you need woodchips for your garden, ask an arborist (avoid diseased trees). For a list of Santa Clara County Certified Arborists, visit the Society of Arboriculture's arborist lookup page.

California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom publishes a monthly email newsletter with numerous agriculture related topics for educators and students. They also sponsor an annual educators conference.

Your Plants... Safe or Poisonous? Information on plant toxicity.

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.