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Garden Implementation

Garden Implementation

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Food based gardening is a beneficial activity that leads to the economical production and consumption of healthy and fresh foods.  SNAP-Ed providers can play an instrumental roles in community food gardening for the low-income population. For more information about community gardening please click here.

SNAP-Ed Supports Food Related Gardening with allowable costs for seeds, plants, small gardening tools and soil. For more information and resources about nutrition education and gardening go to the USDA Food and Nutrition Services gardening page.  You can also view the USDA/FNS webinar on school gardening.

Some ways to implement gardening into your program activities:

  • Establishing community food gardens in low-income areas, such as public housing sites, eligible schools, and qualifying community sites;
  • Assisting with starting a school garden and starting a farm-to-school program;
  • Staff working with Tribal community volunteers to plant a kitchen garden at an FDPIR program site

CDC Peas

CalFresh Healthy Living, UC Garden Purchases

Gardening Curriculum

The list below contains commonly used curricula supported by the CalFresh Healthy Living, UC Program. For a complete list of approved curricula that fall into garden-based curriculum category click here.

Ford School Garden

Youth

Preschool
  • CATCH Early Childhood Nutrition
  • Early Childhood Learn, Grow, Eat Go!
Elementary
  • CATCH Nutrition Curriculum
  • Discovering Healthy Choices
  • Eating Healthy from Farm to Fork
  • The Great Garden Detective Adventure
  • Learn, Grow, Eat, Go!
  • Nutrition to Grow On
  • Teams With Intergenerational Support (TWIGS)
After School
  • CATCH Nutrition Curriculum
  • Learn, Grow, Eat, Go!
  • Nutrition to Grow On
  • Teams With Intergenerational Support (TWIGS)
Middle School
  • CATCH Nutrition Curriculum
  • Teams With Intergenerational Support (TWIGS)
  • YPAR (use if garden focus project is chosen)
High School
  • Nourish
  • YPAR (use if garden focus project is chosen)

Adult

  • Fresh From The Garden

Family Centered

  • Teams With Intergenerational Support (TWIGS)

Evaluation Resources

Click the link above for the recommended evaluation tools.

Resources from CalFresh Healthy Living, UC Garden Workgroup: 

Register for Monthly Garden Meetings for CFHL, UC Staff:

Resources from the SNAP-Ed Connection

Other Resources