The Edible Schoolyard

WEB SITES

Programs
Evergreen. www.evergreen.ca
Gardens for Growing People. www.svn.net/growpepl
San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance. www.sfgreenschools.org
Eco-Schools. www.eco-schools.org
Kidsgardening. www.kidsgardening.com
Aquatic Outreach Institute. www.aoinstitute.org
Two Angry Moms www.angrymoms.org
Feed Me Better www.feedmebetter.com
Chef Ann Cooper www.chefann.com
The Food Project www.foodproject.org
People's Grocery www.peoplesgrocery.org
GRUB www.eatgrub.org
Slow Food USA Education www.slowfoodusa.org/education
Yale Sustainable Food Project www.yale.edu/sustainablefood
Food Change www.foodchange.org
Project Food, Land and People www.foodlandpeople.org
Community Alliance with Family Farmers www.caff.org
Life Lab www.lifelab.org
Rooted in Community www.earthisland.org/ric

Environment and Sustainability
Center For Ecoliteracy. www.ecoliteracy.org
The Food Systems Project. www.foodsystems.org
Berkeley Horticultural Nursery. www.berkeleyhort.com
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center. www.oaec.org
Community Food Security Coalition. www.foodsecurity.org
The Ecology Center. www.ecologycenter.org
The Garden Project. www.gardenproject.org
Sustainable Agriculture Education. www.sagecenter.org

Funding
Kidsgardening
  • School Garden Grants. www.kidsgardening.com/teachers2.asp
  • Youth Garden Grant. www.kidsgardening.com/grants.asp
  • Resource Directory for Grants. www.kidsgardening.com/resources/resource.asp
Environmental Protection Agency. www.epa.gov/teachers/grants.htm
National Wildlife Foundation. www.nwf.org/schoolyardhabitats
National Environmental Education and Training Foundation. www.neetf.org
School Grants. www.schoolgrants.org
The Foundation Center. www.fdncenter.org

These sites all contain additional resources and links that should prove helpful. Resourcefulness and networks within your own local community will also lead to supportive individuals, groups and organizations.

BOOKS ON OUR SHELVES
(a partial list)

The New Oxford Book Of Food Plants. J.G. Vaughan.. Oxford University Press.

Rice: From Risotto to Sushi. Claire Ferguson. Rizzoli.

The Cook's Journal. Christopher Warmell. Running Press.

Africa, Europe, and Asia: Ready to Use Interdisciplinary Lessons and activities for Grades 5-12. D. Bloom. The Center for Applied Research in Education.

Food is Elementary: A Hands-On Curricula for Young Students. Antonia Demas. Food Studies Institute.

Potatoes from Pancakes to Pommes Frites. Annie Nichols. Rizzoli.

Chez Panisse Vegetables. Alice Waters. Harper-Collins.

Chez Panisse Fruit. Alice Waters. Harper-Collins.

Bread. Beth Hensperger. Chronicle Books.

Food In History. Reay Tannahill. Stern and Day.

Slumps, Grunts, and Snickerdoodles: What Colonial America Ate and Why. Lila Perl. Clarion Books.

The Fannie Farmer Cookbook. Marion Cunningham. Alfred A. Knopf.

You Eat What You Are: People, Culture, and Food Traditions. Thelma Barer-Stern. Firefly Books.

The Greatest Table: A Banquet to Fight Against Hunger. Michal J. Rosen. Harcourt Brace and Co.

Play With Your Food. Joost Elffers. Stewart, Tabori, and Chang.

The Food Chronology. James Trager. Henry Holt and Co.

Through the Kitchen Window: Women Explore the Intimate Meanings of Food and Cooking. Beacon Press.

Material World. Peter Menzel. Sierra Club Books.

Recipes From A Kitchen Garden Volume 2. Renee Shepherd and Fran Raboff. Shepherd’s Garden Publishing.

On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen. Harold McGee. Simon and Schuster.

Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Photo Cards. CA Nutrition Education and Training Program. Ca Dept. of Ed.

A Taste of Heritage. The New African–American Cuisine. Joe Randall and Toni Tipton-Martin. Macmillan.

Soul Food: Recipes and Reflections From African-American Churches. Joyce White. Harper Collins.

Everything You Pretend to Know About Food And Are Afraid Someone Will Ask. Nancy Rommelmann. Penguin Books.

How Are You Peeling? Foods With Moods. Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers. Scholastic Press.

Women In the Material World. Faith D’Aluisio and Peter Menzel. Sierra Cliub Books.

The New Guide to Fruit. Kate Whiteman. Lorenz Books.

Food. Weverley Root. Smithmark.

The Gourmet Alter: The History, Origin and Migration of Food of the World. Susie Ward. Macmillan.

Fast Food Nation. Eric Schlosser. Houghton Mifflin.

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture. Wendell Berry. Sierra Club Books.

From the Good Earth. Michael Ableman

The Green Machine. Polly Cameron

Kids Cook Farm Fresh Food, Sibella Kraus. CA Dept. of Education

Kids in Gardens: Student Education Program, Aquatic Outreach Institute

Teaching Organic Farming and Gardening, Albie Miles and Martha Brown, eds. University of Santa Cruz