Roots in the Ground is a comprehensive Farm to Early Care and Education (ECE) curriculum created by Rooted staff, partners, and consultants to guide in-person garden-based education and cooking trainings for ECE professionals. The curriculum is designed to help early childhood educators feel inspired and confident in gardening and cooking activities with young children. View Resource »
La Crosse Community Garden Toolkit
This comprehensive guide covers topics such as selecting a site, establishing a garden committee, securing funding, and building your garden. View Resource »
Plan For Success
This is a go-to guide to help you plan your school garden. The document covers a variety of topics, including how to analyze your site, how to build a team around your school garden, and fundraising — including a sample fundraising letter. View Resource »
Planning Your School Garden
This resource will guide you through the basic steps of creating and maintaining a school garden, including: seeking administrative approval, creating a support network, identifying goals and linking the garden to your curriculum, designing the garden, identifying supply needs and funding needs, obtaining supplies and funds, planting the garden, maintaining the garden, and sustaining the garden. View Resource »
Fundraising Opportunities
Our Funding Opportunities page lists grants and funding sources related to garden-based education. View Page »
