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For on-line School Garden advice, see the Alameda County Master Gardeners website at acmg.ucdavis.edu.

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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

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.

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.

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.

• 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.