How to Grow a School Garden: A Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers
A book signing and talk with the authors,
Arden Bucklin-Sporer and Rachel Kathleen Pringle

Sunday, September 19
4-6 pm
The White Barn
15101 Sonoma Highway, Glen Ellen

Join us for a reception for Arden and Rachel in the bucolic
Valley of the Moon, at
The White Barn at Oak Hill Farm
The authors will talk about their new book, and we'll compare notes and learning about school gardens.

Suggested Donation $5
Please RSVP to Lisa Hunter at lkhunter@aol.com <mailto:lkhunter@aol.com>
Slow Food Sonoma County North
P.O. Box 1494, Healdsburg, CA  95448

The first 12 school garden educators to register will receive a free copy of “How to Grow a School Garden”!

THE BOOK:
It's all here: developing the concept, planning, fund-raising, organizing, designing the space, preparing the site, working with parents and schools, teaching in the garden, planting, harvesting, and even cooking, with kid-friendly recipes and year-round activities. Packed with strategies, to-do lists, sample letters, detailed lesson plans, and tricks of the trade from decades of experience developing school garden programs for grades K–8, this hands-on approach will make school garden projects accessible, inexpensive, and sustainable.
 
THE AUTHORS:
Arden Bucklin-Sporer is executive director of the San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance, an advocacy organization for school gardens and outdoor classrooms.  She is the director of educational gardens for the San Francisco Unified School District, and a founding partner of Bay Tree Design, Inc.  Her interest in urban agriculture is fueled by Oak Hill Farm, her family's organic farm and vineyard in Sonoma County.
Rachel Kathleen Pringle is programs manager for the San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance, as well as the urban school garden liaison for Occidental Arts and Ecology Center's School Garden Teacher Training Program. She was previously a garden educator and coordinator of a public school garden in San Francisco.

 
For directions and a map, go to http://oakhillfarm.sonoma-sky.com/ <http://oakhillfarm.sonoma-sky.com/>   

  

This event is sponsored by Slow Food Sonoma County North, the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center,
and the School Garden Network of Sonoma County.

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