This comprehensive guide covers topics such as selecting a site, establishing a garden committee, securing funding, and building your garden. View Resource »
Eat What You Grow: A School Garden Food Safety Manual
Eat What You Grow! produced a comprehensive list of required food safety protocols for garden operators. By having a set of approved guidelines that all garden participants and foodservice staff implement, school gardens can safely supply our school cafeterias with student and community grown produce and will assure school administrators, teachers, parents and students that the produce grown is handled with the utmost attention to safety. Note that these standards are based on guidelines for Chicago Public Schools. View Resource »
School Garden Safety Video Trainings
The University of AZ Cooperative Extension created a series of online video trainings about school garden safety. Though designed for AZ schools, these videos are applicable to anyone interested in implementing safe practices in their school garden to minimize microbial food safety hazards. View Resource »
Safety in the Little Gardeners’ Garden
There are many things to consider when starting a garden, especially one that small children will use. This publication focuses on how to build and use a garden space that meets and exceeds the safety requirements and licensing rules for child care programs in Wisconsin. View Resource »
Cultivating Safety
This booklet pulls garden-specific information from the North American Guidelines for Children’s Agricultural Tasks, a list that was developed at the request of parents to assist them with assigning safe and appropriate jobs to children and youth. These guidelines can also assist adults with teaching youth how to do a job safely. View Resource »
