Spring 2022
Featured School
Sage Garden Project - Clairemont Cluster
By Jon Lewis, SDMG
Who knew what was to come, back in early 2018, when MG Karen Saake came to a School Garden Committee meeting and announced that the Sage Garden Project had some extra funds? I said “Oh, heck, yeah, I’ll take your money!”
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Lesson
Garden Curriculum Review
By Leta Bender, SDMG
Life Lab, along with Kids Gardening, is responsible for our “go to” book for school garden curriculum for Garden-Based Science and Nutrition activities and lessons.
Curriculum Review
Book Review
The Beak Book By Robin Page
Review by Brenda Mannon, SDMG

The Beak Book and illustrations focus on the many uses, shapes and sizes of bird beaks.
Book Review
What to Plant Now
Veggies to Grow and Harvest Before the End of the School Year
By Vince Lazaneo, Urban Horticulture Advisor Emeritus

In school gardens the race is on to get vegetables planted in spring in time for some kind of harvest before schools let out for summer
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Recipe
Floral Winter Mix Salad
By Jennifer Giaconi, SDMG

Check out this recipe using winter greens from Pacific Beach Elementary's Garden to Cafe Program.
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What's Sprouting?
Grants Available to School Gardens
  •      The Outreach Project
  •       Outdoor Classroom Challenge
  •     Youth Garden Grant
  •      Box Tops 4 Education
  •       Fruit Tree 101
  •       Literacy for Life Grant
  •       Whole Kids Salad Bar Grant
  •       Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools
  •       Taste and Teach
  •       Samull Classroom Herb Garden Grant
  •       Bee Grant
  •       Lorrie Otto Seeds for Education Grant
  •       Plant America Community Project Grant
  •       Budding Botanist Grant
  •       California Fertilizer Foundation
  •       Renewal Bee Grant
  •       The Schoolyard as a Classroom
  •       Walmart Local Community Grant Program
  •       The Outreach Project
  •       Target Gift Cards
Grants Calendar
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