Field Reports
Growing School Gardens: A How-to Guide for Beginning Desert School Gardens in Tucson
Rachel Nagin,
Emerson Fellow
Published 2013
Tucson, Arizona
Growing School Gardens: A How-to Guide for Beginning Desert School Gardens in Tucson is a manual geared for school communities to start their own gardens. It includes suggestions for creating a school garden team, successfully planning and safely managing the garden, Tucson specific financial and organizational resources, tips for working with students in the garden, as well as garden-based curriculum resources for Arizona.
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Rachel grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and graduated from Wellesley College in 2012 with a degree in peace and justice studies. Her studies focused on urban farming and community development, particularly for marginalized communities. At Wellesley, she served on the Multicultural President’s Council to increase the power of marginalized students through dialogue, collaboration, solidarity, and action. She interned at Growing Power in Chicago, where she worked on community food security issues at their urban farm and spent 6 months in India working with and learning from a number of environmental and women's rights NGOs.
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