Worm Composting

Learn to compost with worms. Video goes over selecting a container, starting a worm bin, caring and troubleshooting.

Worm Composting Basics http://www.compostsantacruzcounty.org/Home_Composting/Worm_Composting/index.htm

The Worm Guide: Vermicomposting Guide for Teachers http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/schools/Curriculum/Worms/default.htm

Additional Worm Composting Links http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/schools/Links/Garden.htm

http://www.compostsantacruzcounty.org/School_Composting/links.htm

LAUSD High School Gardeners

Life Lab's 30th Birthday

Life Lab turned 30th and we celebrated with a garden party for the community. Check out our cake that was so big that it didn't fit through the door and how the Banana Slug String Band rocked the garden tunes. Learn more about our birthday events throughout the year.

Center St. School Garden in LA

Center Street School's new garden

Project Food Lab

They really have something great going at Pacific Elementary School in Davenport, CA. Since 1984 the Food Lab Program, in cooperation with the school's Life Lab Garden Program, has been cooking the school lunch for students and staff!

CDFA and School Gardens

A strong supporter of school gardens CDFA Secretary A.G. Kawamura visits a school in Santa Monica, California, where the students and their instructors use their school garden as both a teaching and a learning tool. The CDFA has its own video page and kids page.

Compost on California Heartland TV

This California Heartland TV program segment talks composting. The best part of this video is the last two minutes where various types of bins are being demonstrated for the home/school scale system. I concur with the Fair Oaks Hort Center staff that the simpler bins are better.
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Gardening How To

Fine Gardening has over 40 videos on basic gardening techniques, crafts, design tips and more. While primarily focused for the perennial growing home gardener many of the video topics are relevant to the school gardener. http://www.taunton.com/finegardening/Videos/