Follow-up from F2SBC's School Garden Mentorship February Workshop

[Tessa Stiven]

Workshop Follow-up:

We hope this message finds you well and still inspired following Tuesday's School Garden Mentorship Workshop: Designing your School Garden and Crop Planning featuring Robin Jenkinson from Salt Spring Elementary in SD64. For those of you who were unable to attend or wish to revisit the information shared, please see the links below. 

To access the recording of the webinar, please click here: https://youtu.be/j-L-qr9ippM 

 

For the presentation slides, please click here: download here

Workshop Resources:

• Worksheet 2: Designing a School Garden
• F2SBC: Learning from the Land Toolkit
• Kids Gardening: Seeds of Success Toolkit
• Megan Zeni’s websites: https://theclassroomgardener.com/ and https://meganzeni.com/
• Megan Zeni: Teaching Prep Outside
• The Edible Garden Project: Starting a Schoolyard Market Garden
• School Year Gardens: A Toolkit for High Schools to Grow Food from Sept to June
• Eartheasy: How to start a school garden guide
• Whole Kids: School Garden Resources
• KidsGardening: School garden planning
• Outdoor Learning Store: Episode 04 podcast: Gardening as an entry point to thinking big, with outdoor and garden educator Kaci Rae Christopher, author of The School Garden Curriculum
• School Garden Project: Increasing Inclusion in the School Garden
• Life Lab: School Garden Design Photos Examples

More about February's Mentor, Robin Jenkinson:

In 2017, Robin coordinated the construction of the Salt Spring Elementary School Gardens and has been actively involved in facilitating activities and events ever since. Notably, Robin's background in botany and biology led her to complete three school garden education certifications. She also organizes Sharing Circles across the Gulf Islands School District for school garden champions and continues to help fundraise and support these extraordinary efforts, in part, as a WildBC Facilitator with the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation.

Contact Robin: riverje...@gmail.com

• Robin’s Blog: https://www.schoolgarden.ca/
• Building your Outdoor Classroom: The Top 10
• Education Outside Resources for School Garden Programs
• Salt Spring Elementary School Garden Inauguration (video)
• HCTF Wild Schools Program Overview (pdf)

Sign up for March's Workshop: Classroom Growing and Building the Garden:

In this workshop, we will cover:
 ✔️ Grow seedlings in the classroom
 ✔️ How to build a grow station
 ✔️ Build and install garden beds
 ✔️ How to get help from the community
 
 👉 Sign up and save your spot at https://farmtoschoolbc.ca/garden-mentorship/

Tessa Stiven (she/her)

Central Island Region Community Animator, F2SBC

Public Health Association of BC 

Email: centralis...@farmtoschoolbc.ca

Cell: 250-510-6684

I acknowledge that Central Island regional hub programming operates on the territories of the Snuneymuxw, Stz’uminus, Snaw-naw-as, Hupačasath, Tse-shaht, Huu-ay-aht, Ditidaht, Hesquiaht, Ahousaht, Tla-o-qui-aht, Toquaht, Yuu-cluth-aht and Uchucklesaht First Nations. I live on the unceded territory of the people of the Quw'utsun Nation, who have lived here since time immemorial.  

I work part-time with the following hours: Mon 9-5 / Tues 9-5 / Wed 9-12 / Thurs 9-12