Resources

Ground Education Resources
YouTube Channel
Virtual Lessons

For Science Lessons
Aquarium of the Pacific
Beetles
Bill Nye the Science Guy
Generation Genius
Kids Gardening
Life Lab
Mystery Science
Ten Strands – Seeds to Solutions
The Edible Schoolyard Project

For Building Gardens
​Annie's Learning
Big Green
FoodCorps
Green Schoolyards America
Sprout’s School Garden Program
The Nature Conservancy

For Garden Information
​California Native Plant Society
calscape.org
Harvestingrainwater.com
Gardening in LA: a blog by Yvonne Savio
Las Pilitas
Tree of Life
UCANR - Master Gardener Program: Gardening Resources

Books We Love

• 52 weeks in a Southern California Garden - Robert Smaus
• Beautiful Corn: America's Original Grain from Seed to Plate - Anthony Boutard
• Biomimicry:  Innovation Inspired by Nature - Janine Benyus
• Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer 
• Bringing Nature Home - Douglas W. Tallamy
• California Master Gardener Handbook
• California Native Gardening: A Month-by-Month Guide - Helen Popper
• California Native Plants for the Garden - Borstein, Fross, and O'Brien
• Care and Maintenance of Southern California Native Plant Gardens - Bart O'Brien
• How To Grow A School Garden - Arden Bucklin-Sporer & Rachel Pringle
• Insects of the Los Angeles Basin - Charles Hogue
• Last Child in the Woods – Richard Louv
• Making Thinking Visible - Ron Ritchhart and Mark Church
• Math In The Garden – Jennifer M. White & Katharine D. Barrett
• Schools That Heal - C. Latané
• Southern California Organic Gardening: Month by Month - Pat Welsh
• Sunset Western Garden book 
• The Future of Life - E.O. Wilson
• The Serviceberry: Abundance and reciprocity in the natural world - Robin Wall Kimmerer
• The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control - Fern Marshall Bradley

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