Down To Earth Handbook

Many visitors to our Roots and Shoots Garden express a desire to have a similar garden in their own school yard. They are eager to know where to begin. This Down to Earth Handbook has everything you will need to know about inplementing your own garden program. It is a hands-on, feet-first approach to a school garden where everyone can have a good time learning and working together. This is a great time saver for those who want to start a Roots and Shoots Garden.

This step-by-step guide includes:

  • A notebook binder format for easy duplication of materials and addition of your own ideas
  • 200+ pages of useful, how-to information, detailed lesson plans for each grade covering natural science, literature, music, art, and math, with templates and samples for class projects and publicity pieces.
  • Detailed designs, planting, equipment and structures for each of the seven theme gardens.
  • Suggestions for ways to involve school staff, students, voluteers, and community organizations.
  • Ways to get started, how to recruit and train volunteers, fund raising strategies, and how to create effective publicity.

Click here to request the handbook

  Roots and Shoots Slide Show

The Roots and Shoots Slide Show and prepared script is available for rental. This slide show has proven to be an effective way to represent the plan to garden clubs, school staff, civic organizations, and volunteers. The 125 slides include a tour of the theme gardens, a detailed picture of each grade's lessons and activities with special emphasis on the twelve lessons for the second grade. The slide show tells the story of how the Roots and Shoots share the joys of gardening.



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Harrington Waddell Elementary School
100 Pendleton Place, Lexington, VA 24450
Garden Coordinators: Dirck and Molly Brown
306 Overhill Drive, Lexington, VA 24450
540.463.6454
email: dirck@rockbridge.net