Clemson Extension School & Community Gardening

The Request for Presenters has been extended until August 30, 2024! Still plenty of time to apply to present at the upcoming SC Farm to School Summit:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekdeE7rcj1FdfgfL5JIPZWJvdtGsGZN0N8MAjuPklC5lsWhQ/viewform

We are now accepting proposals for presentations at the 2024 SC Farm to School Summit!

If you are interested in presenting, please fill out the form at the link below to submit your proposal.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekdeE7rcj1FdfgfL5JIPZWJvdtGsGZN0N8MAjuPklC5lsWhQ/viewform

Join the Clemson Extension School & Community Gardening team! We are hiring a School Garden Program Assistant in Charleston, SC. Apply before June 27, 2024 to be considered for the position. Feel free to reach out directly with any questions: [email protected].

https://jobs.clemson.edu/psc/ps/JOBS/EXT/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_SCHJOB_FL&Action=U&

Sweet potato plants planted 🍠🌱✔️ = time for summer break! 🙌🏻☀️💦 We hope all of the educators and school staff we work with enjoy their time off! You’ve earned it!

🚨GRANT Alert! A great opportunity for any SC schools or communities to apply for funds (up to $6000) to create or help sustain a garden! Applications open June 3. See below for more details!
https://wholespire.org/heal-mini-grant/

Get ready! The HEAL Mini-Grant application opens on June 3rd. This is your chance to apply for funding to help your community get access to healthy food and safe, desirable places to exercise and play! To help you prepare, the Request for Proposal (RFP) document is now available. Visit our website to access all the details you need to apply successfully.

Team work makes the dream work 🤩 So excited about the new school gardens in Chester County this spring! 🌱

Bare root sweet potato plants going out to all our school gardens this entire month! Check out the video below on how easy these are to plant and grow. Makes them the perfect summer crop for SC schools! We cannot wait to see the harvests after summer break! 🌱🍠 South Carolina Farm to School South Carolina 4-H Youth Development Clemson Extension Rural Health and Nutrition Clemson Extension Horticulture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkdwsHCic9w

Happy Teacher Appreciation week to all the amazing educators we work with! These teachers truly go above and beyond to provide their students with a positive education and opportunities to learn and grow in and out of the classroom 🤩🌱

Teacher Appreciation Book Sale! - KidsGardening We are celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week with a huge book sale! For one week only we are deeply discounting some of your favorite titles.

We are excited about our new offices and regional training center at the Citadel Mall! Citadel Mall Clemson Extension Horticulture & Tri-County Master GardenersClemson Extension Rural Health and Nutrition Extension Rural Health and Nutrition-Darlington County Clemson Extension Horticulture

One month until the next School Gardening for SC Educators online course begins! Still plenty of time to register at the link below! The online course is self-paced and will be rolling all summer. All participants must complete the coursework by July 31.

Open to all educators, volunteers, school staff who are interested in learning how to start and maintain a school garden! Please reach out with any questions.

School Gardening for SC Educators (June 2, 2024) - Clemson Online School Gardening for SC Educators is a six-week online program from Clemson Cooperative Extension Horticulture and 4-H Youth Development agents. The goal of this course is to help educators, parents, administrators, and other caring adults learn to garden successfully with students. Participants wi...

Check out this school's lettuce and cabbage harvest!🥬 WOW! And we love to see the students munching on the veggies they grow in their school garden🥗 Makes everything really come full circle for them! Clemson Extension Rural Health and Nutrition-Darlington County MUSC Boeing Center for Children's Wellness

Calling all educators, farmers, producers, school district personnel, volunteers, and community organizations working with the Farm to School movement! Proposals to present at the 2025 SC Farm to School are officially open! Please submit before June 30, 2024 to be considered.

You can read more about the proposal process and submit here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekdeE7rcj1FdfgfL5JIPZWJvdtGsGZN0N8MAjuPklC5lsWhQ/viewform

We are now accepting proposals for presentations at the 2024 SC Farm to School Summit!

If you are interested in presenting, please fill out the form at the link below to submit your proposal.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekdeE7rcj1FdfgfL5JIPZWJvdtGsGZN0N8MAjuPklC5lsWhQ/viewform

Pocalla Springs Elementary in Sumter County has been busy putting their new garden beds together! The students are ready for their first crop next month 🍠
This school was one of the 20 schools this year who received the South Carolina Department of Education School Garden Education and Assistance Program grant this year. Way to grow🌱! South Carolina Farm to School Sumter County Clemson Extension Gronomicscedar

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Happy 🌎 Day!

We celebrate Earth Day Every Day!
Learn more about how to practice the principles of Leave No Trace by visiting: https://bit.ly/3WahcGJ

Join us next Tuesday, April 23 at 1:00pm for Community Gardening Resources and Realities! Register today at the link below!

https://clemson.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ucumtrTgpE9wLN9J7lOM0xjsn_GFPZH5i?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2yfHG5OBWjFM3zvDqjHRZQW3pf1Jf81Zd6llSzRzAGHkgffWkFoUuWI7o_aem_AdNemiUn41Hu2Yr93ZtBmCO6B8MVtgvbdZHfHt5q5ttMwPTnqdlXt2fJ7WzwdwofmSYx4pNSJEtgWaf7Q1Ea_GcW #/registration

REGISTER NOW! Join us at our upcoming free Member Meeting on April 23rd from 1-2:30pm with our amazing colleague Amy Dabbs with Clemson Extension School & Community Gardening to learn more about resources, best practices and lessons learned around community gardening in South Carolina. Clemson Extension

Please register in advance for this meeting:
https://clemson.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ucumtrTgpE9wLN9J7lOM0xjsn_GFPZH5i

The Lincolnville Preservation and Historial Society Community Garden 🌱 is planted for summer with pole beans, green beans, carrots, beets, yellow squash, zucchini, tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumbers, and onions. The only thing missing are some great volunteers to help this garden grow! If you want a volunteer opportunity or a tour for your family, business, or organization, please get in touch with the Lincolnville Preservation and Historial Society for more information! Clemson Extension Horticulture & Tri-County Master Gardeners American Community Gardening Association South Carolina Association for Community Economic Development Trident United Way
Fields to Families 🍅🫑🥕🧄🧅🍠

🚨Grant alert! The Lots of Compassion Grant is open now and closes on August 23, 2024. Up to $20,000 in funding is available to transform a vacant lot into a garden. Nonprofit organizations, school districts, universities, religious organizations, or other tax-exempt organizations are eligible to apply.

Lots of Compassion Grant - KidsGardening Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day and KidsGardening will award 10 grantees $20,000 each to transform a vacant lot into a garden.

We love a good seed library and it's national gardening day! Time to grow! 🍃

Plant For the Earth 2024:

An Earth Day celebration featuring the sixth annual Master Gardener Plant Sale

Date: SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2024
Time: 9:30 am - 1:00 pm
Location: Abundant Life Church Parking Lot: 1945 Bees Ferry Road

For more information contact: [email protected]

We’re popping up! 🌿

Thanks to funding from the Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, we offer free vegetable, herb, and wildflower seeds to the community! 🌱

We’ve partnered with the Richland County Master Gardener Association SC for a pop-up event tomorrow, April 13, at Soda City. Stop by RCMGA’s booth located on the 1600 block on Main Street, Columbia to talk with a Master Gardener and pick up some free seeds!

Another FREE seed event on Friday!

The next School Gardening for SC Educators course opens this summer! The course starts June 2 and will roll all summer with it closing on July 31. For more information and to register click the link below!

School Gardening for SC Educators is an online program from Clemson Cooperative Extension Horticulture and 4-H Youth Development agents. The goal of this course is to help educators, parents, administrators, and other caring adults learn to garden successfully with students. Participants will learn the basic horticulture skills necessary to start and maintain their school garden. Licensed educators who successfully complete the course will receive twenty (20) renewal credits from the South Carolina Department of Education.

School Gardening for SC Educators (June 2, 2024) - Clemson Online School Gardening for SC Educators is a six-week online program from Clemson Cooperative Extension Horticulture and 4-H Youth Development agents. The goal of this course is to help educators, parents, administrators, and other caring adults learn to garden successfully with students. Participants wi...

SAVE THE DATE ‼️ The SC Farm to School Summit will be in Columbia on February 21, 2025! A call for proposals will be shared soon. We hope to see you there!

SAVE THE DATE! The SC Farm to School Summit will take place on February 21st, 2025, in Columbia, SC.

The Summit will consist of keynote speakers and educational sessions discussing topics such as local procurement, school nutrition, agricultural education, school gardening, and how to Bridge the Gap from Farm to School.

We hope to see you there!

Challenge your secondary students to use the to develop an garden using a 5-gallon bucket! In the process students will discover if we can reduce water use in agriculture with aeroponics and what crops we could grow this way to preserve natural resources.

https://agclassroom.org/matrix/search_result/?search=aeroponic

Gather your own materials or order kits from AgClassroomStore at USU 👉 https://agclassroomstore.com/aeroponic-garden/

Check out this field trip Springfield Elementary School garden club students in Charleston took with the Master Gardeners! ♻️

Over the past two days, the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade gardening club students were able to visit the Charleston County Composting Center, which is operated by McGill Compost. During our trip, students learned how food scraps from our cafeteria, and other local schools and restaurants, get combined with local yard debris to create compost. Some of this compost is in our school garden right now! We got our hands dirty as we explored the science of how microorganisms and mushrooms work together in breaking down our “waste” and turn it into compost that helps crops grow. Did you know that temperatures in compost piles can get up to 200 degrees?!

The first day of spring was this week, and we love seeing all the "Seed Libraries" sprouting all over South Carolina 🌱 Check out the article below featuring our very own Amy Dabbs as the "seed fairy" for Charleston County Public Library🧚‍♀️Thank you to Botanical Interests Seed Packets for the donations to make this endeavor possible.

To see which locations in SC are currently hosting seed libraries, check out our website: https://www.clemson.edu/extension/school-community-gardening/resources/index.html

If your local library or soil and water district is interested in becoming a Seed Library, please fill out this form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-w1wGK1nCbT92ZI6c_8fRJi6Arw1_m25EKZYADUJccQ/edit

https://www.postandcourier.com/moultrie-news/community-news/between-the-stacks-spring-seed-libraries/article_1559ee70-dfda-11ee-a387-a346d9007c8d.html

Between the Stacks: Spring seed libraries Working at the library, I usually see thousands of books a day. However, one cold day last November, I also viewed thousands of packets of seeds.

Love this awesome fundraising idea from our friends kncb!

Hello friends! We will host our next garden fundraiser tomorrow (Wednesday, March 20) from 11am-12pm at North Charleston City Hall. Floral arrangements will be available in exchange for a donation to KNCB’s garden programs in North Charleston.

Pre-Order your arrangement online, and you will be able to shop the sale from 10:45-11am, before the general sale opens to the public. After 11am, selection will be on a first come, first served basis.

Visit the link below to pre-order, or plan to shop in person tomorrow!

Pre-Order:
https://form.jotform.com/232965215215050

Thank you for your support of garden programs in North Charleston!