Resources

For Building Gardens
​Big Green
American Heart Association
Whole Kids Foundation
Annie's Grants for Gardens
Lowe's Toolbox for Education

​For Science Lessons
Siemens Science Day:  Discovery Education
Aquarium of the Pacific
The Edible Schoolyard Project
Mystery Science

For Garden Information
calscape.org
​Garden Notes by David King
Tree of Life
Las Pilitas
Calflora.org
Harvestingrainwater.com
California Native Plants for the Garden by Borstein, Fross, and O'Brien
​California Native Plant Society

Books We Love
Anything by Wendell Berry
Anything by Michael Pollan
Making Thinking Visible by Ron Ritchhart and Mark Church
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Let it Rot by Stu Campbell
The Third Plate by Dan Barber
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
American Grown:  The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America by Michelle Obama
Biomimicry:  Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine Benyus
Junkyard Planet by Adam Minter
The Future of Life by E.O. Wilson
Let my People go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia)
Theodore Payne in his Own Words: A Voice for California Native Plants
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs:  Living and Writing in the West by Wallace Stegner
Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
Bringing Nature Home by Douglas W. Tallamy
Beautiful Corn: America's Original Grain from Seed to Plate by Anthony Boutard

For Young People
Grandpa Green by Lane Smith
Red Sings from the Treetops by Sidman and Zagarenski
A Seed is Sleepy by Hutts-Aston and Long
Salad People and More Real Recipes by Mollie Katzen
How Did That Get in my Lunchbox? By Butterworth and Gaggiotti
A Curious Garden by Peter Brown
How to Make an Apple PIe and See the World by Marjorie Priceman
The Gardener by Stewart and Small
Owl Moon by Yolen and Schoenherr

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