Join Farm to School BC's School Garden Mentorship Workshop: Designing your School Garden!

Are you a K-12 educator in BC in the initial stages of creating a school garden or are revitalizing an existing school garden? Join us for our School Garden Mentorship Workshop on designing your school garden.

In this workshop we will be covering:

We will also be hearing from two guest speakers who have a lot of expertise in these areas, Megan Zeni (The Classroom Gardener) and Aaren Topley (Can You Dig It). 

We are also going to be giving away a copy of The School Garden Curriculum: An Integrated K-8 Guide for Discovering Science, Ecology, and Whole-Systems Thinking by Kaci Rae Christopher as a prize to one of the attendees!

Bring your questions and ideas to this collaborative presentation!

About the Presentors

Megan Zeni is the founder of Room to Play Consulting. Megan is a mother of three, with over 25 years of elementary classroom teaching experience. Megan works extensively with teachers across the province (and beyond) to support the use of school gardens as meaningful spaces of cross curricular learning. Megan is a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia in the faculty of education. Her research interests include how elementary school teachers enact education outside the classroom. Megan will be talking about how to incorporate your students and their needs into school garden planning and design at our workshop!

Aaren Topley is the Provincial Manager of Can you Dig It at the Public Health Association of BC, he has spent the last seven years working with school districts to institutionalize and sustain school gardens and farms. He will be discussing how to navigate school district policies at our upcoming workshop!

About the School Garden Mentorship Program

From January to October 2022, Farm to School BC is offering a free mentorship program for K-12 educators in BC who are in the initial stages of creating a school garden or are revitalizing an existing school garden.

Using a Train the Trainer model, this mentorship program will provide valuable skills for school-based coordination that supports both the development of a robust school garden community and tips for garden maintenance.

This program includes monthly after-school online workshops facilitated by Farm to School BC staff who have a wealth of experience supporting school gardens. Each workshop is designed to build off previous workshops, however, participants can sign up for as many sessions as they like.

Each workshop will include the following components:

• An educational presentation by Farm to School BC staff
• Regional breakout rooms for discussion and reflection
• Project planning resources to support your school garden team
• Profile of an inspiring school garden
• An activity you can do with your class in the garden

Along with monthly workshops, educators are invited to join our online school garden discussion group. This online community will be a place to network, share resources, ask questions, and celebrate successes with other educators across BC interested in school gardens. Join the online community here.

Join our mailing list to receive updates about the School Garden Mentorship Program including upcoming webinars and resources. Sign up here.