School Gardens

About School Gardens

Grow It, Try It, Like It! Nutrition Education Kit Featuring MyPlate is a garden-themed nutrition education kit for child care center staff that introduces children to: three fruits - peaches, strawberries, and cantaloupe, and three vegetables - spinach, sweet potatoes, and crookneck squash.

The kit includes seven booklets featuring fruits and vegetables with fun activities through the imaginary garden at Tasty Acres Farm! It also has a CD-ROM with Supplemental Information and a DVD with Cool Puppy Pup's Picnic and Lunch Parties. Each set of lessons contains: hands-on activities, planting activities, and nutrition education activities that introduce MyPlate.

Use the kit to promote learning at home with fun parent/child activities and family-sized recipes that give tips for cooking with children.

Grow It, Try It, Like It!

Grow It, Try It, Like It is one of many offered garden curricula from CalFresh Healthy Living, UC, linking the classroom to the garden. 

A Look Into the Garden