School Gardens:
A Guide to Selected Resources

Science Reference Section
Science, Technology, and Business Division
Library of Congress

• Selected Titles
• Historic References
• Selected Internet Resources

SELECTED TITLES

Eames-Sheavly, Marcia. Sowing the seeds of success: how to start and sustain a kids’ gardening project in your community. Burlington, VT, National Gardening Association, 1999. 28 p.
   <SciRR>

Greening school grounds: creating habitats for learning. Edited by Tim Grant and Gail Littlejohn. Gabriola Island, B.C., New Society Publishers, Limited, 2001. 136 p.
   SB 55.G74 2001 <SciRR>

Growing ventures: starting a school garden business. South Burlington, VT, National Gardening Association, 2003. 64 p.
   <SciRR>

Johnson, Katherine A., and Marti Ross Bjornson. The Chicago school garden initiative: a collaborative model for developing school gardens that work. Glencoe, IL, Chicago Botanic Garden, 2003. 71 p.
   <SciRR>

Kiefer, Joseph, and Martin Kemple. Digging deeper: integrating youth gardens into schools & communities: a comprehensive guide. Montpelier, VT, Food Works, Common Roots Press, 1998. 141 p.
   <SciRR>

Mackey, Bonnie, and Jennifer Mackey Stewart. A librarian’s guide to cultivating an elementary school garden. Columbus, OH, Linworth Pub., c2009. 124 p.
   Includes bibliographical references.
   SB55.M34 2009

Ocone, Lynn, and Eve Pranis. The National Gardening Association guide to kids’ gardening: a complete guide for teachers, parents, and youth leaders. New York, Wiley, 1990. 148 p.
   Bibliography: p. 140-145.
   Rev. ed. of The youth gardening book, c1983.
   SB457.O24 1990

Steps to a bountiful kids’ garden. Edited by Amy Gifford. South Burlington, VT, National Gardening Association, c2001. 56 p.
   <SciRR>

Waters, Alice, Daniel Duane, and David Liittschwager. Edible Schoolyard: a universal idea. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2008. 79 p.
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HISTORICAL REFERENCES

Gaumnitz, Walter Herbert. Schools and war gardens: some guides and resources. Washington, Federal Security Agency, U. S. Office of Education, 1943. 11 p.
   SB55.G3

Greene, M. Louise (Maria Louise). Among school gardens. New York, Charities Publication Committee, 1910. 388 p.    Bibliography: p. 341-375.
   SB55.G7

Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory. “A better crop of boys and girls”: the school gardening movement, 1890-1920. History of education quarterly, v. 48, Feb. 2008: 58-93.
   L11.H67 Ft. Meade

Lawson, Laura J. The school garden movement. In her City bountiful: a century of community gardening in America. Berkeley, University of California Press, c2005. p. 51-143.
   SB457.3.L39 2005 <SciRR>

Schwab, Erasmus. The school garden. Being a practical contribution to the subject of education. New York, M. L. Holbrook & Co., 1879. 92 p.
   SB55.S3

Trelstad, Brian. Little machines in their gardens: a history of school gardens in America, 1891 to 1920. Landscape journal, v. 16, no. 2, 1997: 161-174.
   SB469.L35

United States school garden army. The spring manual of the United States school garden army. Washington, Govt. Print. Office, 1919. 32 p.
   SB55.U7 1919a

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SELECTED INTERNET RESOURCES

American Horticultural Society
http://www.ahs.org/youth_gardening

Chicago Botanic Garden
http://www.chicagobotanic.org/schoolgarden/

Edible Schoolyard, Martin Luther King Junior Middle School, Berkeley, California
http://www.edibleschoolyard.org

Garden ABCs School Garden Share Site
http://www.gardenabcs.com

National Gardening Association
http://www.kidsgardening.com

School Gardens with Constance Carter
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/journey/schoolgardens.html

Virginia Tech Department of Horticulture
http://www.hort.vt.edu/HORT6004/network/schoolgardens.html

Compiled by Joyce Howland, August 2009