Guidelines for Working with SD8 Operations Dept to Create School Gardens

If you are planning to have or build a school garden on the school grounds at your school, please review these guidelines first as there are important steps to ensure you have approval and support from the Operations Department of School District 8.

Link to Edible School Grounds Groupsite

Whether you are a teacher, a parent, a principal, student or foodie-at-large, this network is designed  to help you connect with others who are starting, or have already created successful school gardens.  We welcome you to join the groupsite and share and learn from the expertise of all the members.  Ask a question, give an answer, share a resource.  This site is for you to network with other gardeners to promote healthy active living, hands-on learning, food literacy, sustainability, and community-building.
Happy Gardening!

Evergreen

Through Evergreen Common Grounds and Toyota Evergreen Learning Grounds, they are a leading national funder and facilitator of local, sustainable greening projects in schoolyards, parks and communities across Canada.

From Field to Blackboard - Food Activities for Your Class 

Food is a big part of our lives, and there are many things we can learn from the way our food is grown, how it travels around the world, and how much it costs. Children eat food every day but they aren’t involved in its production or preparation. Yet, they are often eager to learn and to understand the food issues that come up more and more in the media, or around the dinner table. That's why we thought we'd share with you our favourite educational resources on food and farming, the environment, biodiversity, and global hunger. We’re always working to develop new tools and improve our existing ones.
(Unitarian Service Committee of Canada)

West Coast Seeds

Vancouver School Board Food Garden Policy and Garden Process

Great information about their policy development and the garden development process including garden plans and layout.

Healthy Eating at Schools - In the Garden

This website is full of great resources on all topics pertaining to schools and nutrition. •There is a section specific to school gardens that contains gardening ‘how to’ resources, lesson plans and links to funding sources. One of the resources on this site is "School Year Gardens" A Tool Kit for High Schools to grow food from September to June.