Links
Articles
At Global Children’s Gardens we are very interested in sharing your gardening stories. Here are a few of ours:
If gardening has changed your life, transformed your organization or empowered and captivated the youth of your community we would be delighted to hear about your experience.
For every article submitted, as a token of our appreciation, we will send you a package of Seeds of Promise – Planting Gardens of Hope. Click here to submit an article.
Resources
- Growing Spaces is a great resource for dome information. Here are some examples of the content on their site:
Web Sites
Below is a list of other web sites around the world that deal with children, children's gardens and childrens issues:
- Growing Spaces - Growing Spaces manufactures and sells Geodesic Dome Greenhouse Kits.
- Eden Project - We are a living demonstration of regeneration and we aim to reconnect people with their environments locally and globally.
- Exploring the Global Garden - Camp Internet Global Garden Project
- Friends of Troy Gardens - The Friends of Troy Gardens (FTG) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the development, management, and stewardship of Troy Gardens, 26 acres of open space on the Northside of Madison, Wisconsin.
- Chicago Botanic Children's Garden
- Global Children's Organization - Global Children's Organization (GCO) nurtures children traumatized by intolerance, terrorism, or war by providing summer camps and on-going programs which prepare both children and volunteers to be active participants in building a peaceful world.
- Global Garden, Australia - free internet gardening magazine.
- Global Giving - gardens for abused children of South Africa.
- Growing Power - inspires communities to build sustainable food systems that are equitable and ecologically sound, creating a just world, one food-secure community at a time.
- Helen and Peter Bing Children's Garden - The Garden centers on the four ancient elements–Fire, Water, Earth and Air.
- KidsGardening.org! - Garden Resources, Gardening for Families, Teacher's Garden and Shopping for Gardening
Here is their Kids Garden Newsletter.
- Leila Arboretum Society - Children's Garden - Battle Creek, Michigan. The Children’s Garden is a one-acre site that through delightful, engaging guided programs or self-discovery, makes this connection real.
- The New York Botanical Garden - Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden
- Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture - " To increase opportunities and choice for poor rural communities in semi-arid areas to improve their livelihoods through sustainable innovation in agriculture".
- University of California Davis Children's Garden - Davis, CA. Thousands of elementary school children visit our working farm and garden site each spring to learn about garden ecology and growing food.
- Wisconsin Foodshed Research Project - Childrens Gardening Network (CGN)
- RASA - is a production company that designs and distributes travelling children’s exhibitions and educational kits.
