Workshop on Organizing and Stewarding your School Garden: July 23

Are you having a difficult time creating and sustaining your school Garden Team? Is your school garden a challenge to maintain during the summer? This workshop is aimed at K-12 teachers and members of school gardening committees and covers how to organize and build a Garden Team, stewardship schedules, and how to harvest and weed gardens. Through activities and discussion, there is ample time to network and for participants to learn from their peers at other schools. Come and learn from other school gardens!

Where and When: Thursday, July 23, 2015 9am-3pm at Beulah Shoesmith Elementary School,
1330 East 50th Street Chicago, IL 60615

Cost: Free for schools that have participated in the Building School Gardens Program

Support for this workshop is provided by the Polk Bros Foundation, The Albert Pick, Jr. Fund, and Peoples Gas. For registration information please contact John Cawood at jcawood@openlands.org.