School Garden Training Sample Syllabus

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DAILY SCHEDULE  

Breakfast                  7:30-8:15 am

Harvesting                8:15-8:45 am

Morning Session      9:00-Noon

Lunch                       12:30-1:30 pm

Afternoon Session     1:45-5:30 pm

Dinner                       6:00-7:00 pm

Eve Session               7:00-8:30 pm

MONDAY

8:00-8:30 am ARRIVAL AND CHECK-IN 

Introductions and program overview

Tour of site, gardens and backcountry 

Lunch

Plant ID and properties

Elements of organic gardening

Soil and compost

Dinner

Biodiversity of the vegetable world

TUESDAY

Breakfast

Harvesting from the garden      

Crop planning, planting calendar, propagation

Use of hand tools

Lunch

Bed prep and planting

Seed collection and seed saving

Dinner

Intro to resource materials

Virtual tour of school gardens    

WEDNESDAY 

Breakfast

Harvesting from the garden

Curriculum connections     

Lunch

Recycling and Vermiculture

Seed curriculum, project

Team building

Dinner

No evening program

THURSDAY - Field Trip

Breakfast

Tour and overview of Salmon Creek program

Cooking and nutrition 

Prepare and share lunch at site

Resource networking

Intro to Permaculture

Dinner

Skills for working together

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Art and design in the garden

Lunch

Next steps for school teams

      Follow up support, evaluation and closing, seed exchange

4:00 pm              DEPARTURE