Resources

Making Your Garden Grow - May 3rd
CALS Little Rock Children's Library and Learning Center

Click on the following links to access presentations from the summit! 

Creating Quality Garden Programs

• CT Erickson, Springdale Public Schools, Harp Elementary 
• Lisa Richardson, Fayetteville Public Schools, Owl Creek School
• Don Bennett, Tri Cycle Farms
• Meredith Martin-Moats, McElroy House, other recommendations from Meredith: 
• Seeking out local growers/building connections:
• Locally grown: type in your zipcode, find local small-scale growers.
• Seed Sources:
• Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company: Great seed and recipes included in their free yearly catalogs
• Ideas/Inspiration for Community Engagement in Classrooms and Beyond:
• CAAH: Conserving Arkansas's Agricultural Heritage
• Seed Broadcast
• Alaska Native Knowledge Network: Great holistic models
• Local Learning Network: bringing living traditions and history into the classroom
• Teaching for Change: Role of history and community action
• Specific Examples from Seed and the Story column/Boiled Down Juice:  
• Gardening across generations
• Living Out the Land Ethic in Pope County, Arkansas
• Using Oral History as a Way to Discuss Gardening
• Dealing with Drought: Portraits from Three Little Rock Community Gardens
• Other:
• Boiled Down Juice: A gathering space for budding conversations at the intersection of community-based traditions and holistic, democratic, place-based community action. 
• Want more information about garden based curriculum resources and cooking with kids? Check out this list.

Keynote Presentations

• Janet Carson, University of Arkansas Extension Service

Fundraising and "friend-raising" for school and community gardens

• Arkansas Community Foundation Notes, compiled by Michael Drake 

Community Engagement and Volunteer Recruitment

• Compilation of articles from the American Community Gardening Association
• Urban farm code from Austin, TX - sustainable urban agriculture 
• A brief phone script for recruiting volunteers
• A great resource on classroom projects for gardens that want to collaborate with schools
• This recommended blog from an organization in D.C. 

Gardening 1.0 and 2.0

• Interested in seed saving? Check out this overview of seed saving and document covering seed saving basics. Conserving Arkansas's Agricultural Heritage (CAAH) compiled those documents as well as this handout about hosting your own seed swap! 

Planning committee: partners websites 

• Arkansas Community Foundation
• City of North Little Rock Fit 2 Live Initiative
• Childhood Obesity Prevention Research Program at Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute
• Delta Garden Study
• FEED Communities
• FoodCorps
• The National Center for Appropriate Technology
• University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service

The planning committee team outside the Little Rock Children's Library and Learning Center, 
from left to right: Bernadette Gunn Rhodes, Julianne Dunn,
Melissa Terry, Dylan Perry, Margo Hale, Sarah Kinser,
Rachel Spencer, and Emily English (Chris Love not pictured)