This is a condensed, one-day workshop, abbreviating the full Arizona School Garden Sustainability Summit, being held September 5 & 6 in the Phoenix Metro Area.
The Summit and Workshop are being hosted by the Arizona Department of Education and AZ Health Zone.
The events promise to provide plenty of useful information and inspiration for anyone involved in garden education. The Summit and Workshops have been planned based on evidence-based indicators for successful garden programming described in detail in the evidence-based Garden Resources, Education and Environment Nexus (GREEN) tool (Burt, Koch, & Contento, 2017). Specifically, the elements critical to a successful and sustainable garden program are:
Development of a Garden Committee
Establishment of Funding and Support
Integration with programming/curriculum
Professional Development
We factored this into the planning; you'll find that each session directly addresses one of the four critical pieces. You will hear from garden program leaders, educators, Master Gardeners, horticulture/botany professionals, sustainability leaders and more. You will leave with ideas that you can immediately implement in your own garden setting. Although the title is "School Garden Summit", this information is relevant and applicable to early care and community garden environments as well.
$10/person. Register here.
Another condensed one-day Summit will be held in Northern Arizona on September 4.