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January 2024

Past Issues

November 2023
Garden Clubs: Hickory Ridge Middle School
Native Plants
-Lesson Plan: Carrots, Carrots, Everywhere
-Virtual Lesson: Explore plant parts with flower dissection
September 2023
Garden Clubs: Kannapolis YMCA
-Lesson Plan: Don’t Yuck My Yum
Pollinator Q&A
May 2023
Soils 101: Topping off Raised Beds
Food as Art
Curriculum Connection: Art in the Garden
Nutrition from the Garden
-Recipes: Fall Harvests Salad, Kohlrabi Apple Slaw, Strawberry Quinoa Salad
March 2023
Soils 101: Soil Additives
Try it! Soil Texture Analysis
School Garden Scorecard
Social Studies in the Garden
compost cake
January 2023
Soils 101: Building Soil Through Compost
Try it! Compost Cake
Hydroponics: A Soil Alternative
-Grant Opportunity
Compost Tea
November 2022
Soils 101: Soil Microbes
Try it! Brew Compost Tea
Support Informational Text Lessons with Garden + Pollinators
-Grants
-Website Re-FRESH
Soil Story Clip
September 2022
Growing Your Soil
Soils 101: Why soil, not dirt?
Try it! Soil Your Undies
-Student-tested and Teacher-approved Garden Tools
-Curriculum Connection – Math (Calculating Soil for raised beds)
-NC Farm Bureau Ag in the Classroom Going Local Grant Opportunity
MayFresh
May 2022
-SEL Activity: Lessons from the Garden
-Growing School Gardens Summit
-Videos: Growing Sweet Potato Slips, Part 2 and 3
March 2022
-SEL Garden Activity: Write, Rip, Grow
-What’s New in Your Garden?
-Video: Starting Sweet Potato Slips, Part 1
Garden club harvest
February 2022
SEL Garden Activity: 5-4-3-2-1
School Garden Clubs
Grant Opportunities
STEMsational Ag: The Virtual Farm
nature bracelets
January 2022
SEL Garden Activity: Nature Bracelets
Building Excitement for the Spring Garden
Ready-Made Virtual Lessons
Kids Garden Community

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