Books

These are books which are excellent resources. Most can be obtained through local book stores, Libraries or Amazon. Those that are available at NPL are listed with call numbers!
 * [[image:nashvilleschoolgardennetwork/Naturalist_Intelligence.JPG]] || This books includes a curriculum designed to help you use the garden as a springboard to curriculum that relates to the science curriculum. It focuses on the fact that this has been added to the seven multiple intelligences.

This link will help you understand why multiple intelligences are important to educators and will deepen your ability to talk to educators about your garden currirulum. [] || This delightful book is an especially helpful tool for the beginning gardener. It will guide you and your children through all the basics of creating your very own garden. What a wonderful project for a toddler! Based on a gardening project started at the French-American School in Berkeley, California, this book will take you from planning and planting to harvesting and cooking delicious herbs and vegetables. The recipes are almost entirely vegetarian; including Herb Mayonnaise, Corn, Rice and Tomato Salad with Basil, and Snap Bean and Potato Soup with Pasta, just to name a few. Also includes a resource section for seed suppliers and more. || Available at NPL 371.716 K141L "Most readers are already convinced that the highly processed, minimally nutritious goop sitting atop their child's lunch tray must be replaced with real food. But how?
 * ===[[image:nashvilleschoolgardennetwork/EdibleSchool_Yard.jpg width="208" height="208"]]=== || The seminal work marrying school gardens, nutrition and food preparation! This book is available at NPL - 635.04 W329e ||
 * ===[[image:nashvilleschoolgardennetwork/Children's_Kitchen_Garden.jpg]]=== || This book is available at NPL -- 372.357 B8382c
 * [[image:nashvilleschoolgardennetwork/Roots_and_Research.jpg width="214" height="214"]] || This book explores the urban school garden as a bridge between environmental action and thought. As a small-scale response to global issues around access to food and land, urban school gardens promote practical knowledge of farming as well as help renew cultural ideals of shared space and mutual support for the organic, built environment. Through a comprehensive history of school garden practice rooted in Eastern industrial cities, to case studies from four Pacific Rim regions, this book examines the practice and culture of the urban school garden as a central symbol for environmental learning. ||
 * [[image:nashvilleschoolgardennetwork/LunchWars width="234" height="269"]] || According to Kirkus Reviews this book is outstanding!

Buoyed by extensive case studies that both inform and inspire, Kalafa's how-to guide covers all the bases from networking with local organic farmers to writing successful RFPs || Available at Nashville Public library 635 B9249h || Given that everything is political, this book is a simple step by step how to negotiate implementing a school garden or outdoor curriculum with the support of your principle, teachers and the local school community. While, at the same time, supporting through simple step by step exercises, your particular school garden vision (mission statement). It is an amazing book written by someone with hands on knowledge and expertise in creating school gardens. This is an essential book for any person(s) that would like to put together a flourishing school garden or outdoor curriculum. -- customer review from Amazon. ||
 * School Garden [[image:nashvilleschoolgardennetwork/SchoolGarden.jpg width="290" height="281"]]
 * [[image:nashvilleschoolgardennetwork/RootsShootsBuckets&Boots.jpg]] || This book is more focused on Parents and children rather than the school yard, but certainly is a great book for parents especially who don't know much about gardening. It's full of the coolest garden designs I've ever seen that are focused on kid fun. Lovejoy presents a large number of gardens based around a central theme- some edible with veggies and herbs, some aimed more at flowers. Each theme includes a list of plants for different zones and a garden-related project or two that brings new dimensions to history, nutrition, science, cooking, ecology or art for your kids. Several of them revolve around a "tent" frame that needs a couple of adults to build it; it's sort of like a teepee, but with more supports. Once the frame is built, you can add a variety of different vines to create anything from a "night garden" tent of scented white flowers to a thickly-screened shade tent for hot summer days. Since the frame can be covered with annuals, you can plan a different garden each year. There's ideas for traditional knot gardens, proper composting, flowers for craft activities, and unusual and easy-to-grow edibles, and it's easily possible to combine a couple of Lovejoy's themes to creat your own. ||
 * [[image:nashvilleschoolgardennetwork/SchoolyardEnhanced_Learning.jpg]] || It is a PRACTICAL step-by-step guide to encourage classroom K-8 teachers to take the children outdoors. It is designed to take away the teachers' fear. It encourages teachers to step off the path of least resistance and into the real world where the sun shines, birds sing, insects crawl and flowers bloom.

The practicality of this book stems from Herb's life. While he is currently a college professor of curriculum and instruction, this position is the end point of a long career in real world education. Herb began as a sixth grade teacher. He continued his education and advanced through the education bureaucracy to become an assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction. The wisdom is found in chapters on: Making the School Grounds an Outdoor Classroom, Taking Your Class Outside: The Nuts and Bolts, Developing Process Skill in an Engaging Environment, Teaching Content-Area Concepts Outdoors and Beyond the Schoolyard.

This book can be useful to nature center education staff. From time-to-time we are all challenged with questions and challenges this book can address. When a school asks a nature center to assist with creating an outdoor learning area, this book can be a valuable PRACTICAL reference. When a school administrator needs encouragement and justification for outdoor learning, this book can provide PRACTICAL support. ||