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Desert Institute of Gardening ONLINE: School Gardens in the Low Desert

University of Arizona Maricopa County Cooperative Extension
School Gardens

Maricopa County Master Gardener Don Sutton will guide you on how to plan, create, teach and maintain a K-12 school garden.
You will also learn how to garner funding and develop a great group of volunteers to help the students.

YOU WILL LEARN:

  • How to build the links to the school curriculum based on grade level
  • Design the garden space
  • Seek funding & volunteers
  • Plant for something to harvest in the time you have
  • Sustain the garden to fit the school calendar
  • Keep track of success and failures

SPEAKER: Don Sutton is a graduate from the University of Nebraska- Lincoln with an undergraduate degree in biology. His gardening experience started early! He was the official weed picker for his great uncle on two-acre garden in Hullet, Wyoming. Don has worked with schools and churches in the valley to set up and maintain vegetable gardens. Additionally, he has been a speaker at the Maricopa Home and Garden shows over the past two years.

REGISTER HERE:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dig-online-school-gardens-in-the-low-desert-tickets-117305189981

Registration:
Not required
County or Indian Reservation: Maricopa

Event Date

September 27, 2020 2:00pm to 5:00pm

Location

Online event link

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dig-online-school-gardens-in-the-low-desert-tickets…

Contacts

Noelle Schlader
(602) 827-8217
nschlader@arizona.edu

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