Vitenparken

School Garden Seminar

See the School garden seminar 2020 here.

See the School garden seminar 2021 here.

See the School garden seminar 2022 here.

Links

School gardens in Norway – ideas, plans, films, resources and maps of school gardens in Norway. Do you have a school garden? Add your school to the map!

School garden starter pack pdf . Use the potato planting method to turn your lawn into a kitchen garden, learn how to set up pallet frames, example of a mini school garden measuring 1.2 x 4 m. Nina Berge, 2018.

The school garden as a learning arena – Guidance booklet from the Education Department in the Municipality of Oslo. Suitable for grades 1-7 and after-school care.

Various teaching materials made by school gardens in Copenhagen.

DYRK.nu , Danish farming app. Works on both PC and smartphone.

Agropub – Here you will find, among other things, plans for, and articles about, school gardens. Run by NORSØK.

NORSØK – Norwegian Center for Organic Agriculture, has been working with school gardens for a number of years.

The Norwegian Society for Nature Conservation – learning resources about biodiversity in the school garden.

The natural school bag – several of the participating schools have worked with school gardens.

NMBU – Further education in organic school gardening and sustainable learning, 15 credits.

Norwegian School Garden Association – Forum for everyone involved and/or interested in school gardens.

Gardens for bellies – School garden organization in Denmark.

https://edibleschoolyard.org/ – Edible education rooted in 20 years of experience.

FAO – How to establish and run a school garden.

Food Jungle – activities, recipes and education about food, the environment and health, aimed at after-school care/AKS.

Books

• Hannah's Garden, Ellen-Beate Wollen. About organic vegetable growing with children.
• Handbook for the kitchen garden, Lena Israelsson. Everything about the kitchen garden is here.
• The School Garden. Establishment, operation and pedagogical adaptation of a school garden. Linda Jolly and Marianne Leisner, 2000.
• Cultivate the future – a handbook for starting a school garden . Downloadable pdf file and physical book. Annikken Jøssund and Markus Hustad, Organic Norway, 2021.

Research on school gardens

School gardens can be an important learning arena for giving students knowledge about food and cultivation. It can be a place to create commitment to nature and the environment, and respect and knowledge about animal and plant life. In the digital portal Koredatabasen you can find research on school gardens.

Read more about research on school gardens .

School garden as a learning arena for in-depth learning, critical thinking and sustainability.
Online resources developed by Brønnerud School in Ås and Vitenparken Campus Ås.