The UC Davis Children's Garden Program

The UC Davis Children's Garden Program offers hands-on training for teachers and parents interested in school gardens.

Fall 2005 Workshop Schedule

Basics Plus: Starting and Sustaining Your School Garden
This workshop covers the basics of preparing your ground, setting up a watering system, planting, and then controlling the inevitable weeds and critters. It also explores planting cycles and strategies for maintaining a vital garden program over the long haul. New and experienced gardeners welcome.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 9:00am-12:30pm

The Power of Perennials
Discover how attractive, low-maintenance perennial herbs, trees and California native plants can be included in the school landscape or garden area. Learn several ways they can be used for teaching.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 9:00am-Noon

Where the Wild Things are: Insects in the Garden
Search out and identify insects and other creatures in the garden. Learn activities that demonstrate their important role in the garden ecosystem while teaching science and other subjects.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 12:30pm-3:30 pm

Gardens For Good Nutrition
School gardens present wonderful opportunities for increasing students‚ awareness of good nutrition. This workshop presents fun ways to teach the connections between gardens and nutrition while incorporating math, science, language arts and social studies concepts. Teachers will use lessons from CA Dept of Education‚s publication, Kids Cook Farm-Fresh Food, to prepare a meal from fresh garden produce.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 9:00am-12:30 pm

Workshops are held at the UC Davis Plant Science Teaching Center & Student Farm. Registration fee of $15 per person per workshop includes snacks and materials. Enrollment is limited, so early registration is strongly encouraged. For more information, call 530-752-7655 or email Jeri Ohmart at .