School Garden Consulting Services
If you’re just looking to purchase Tower Gardens for your school, then visit our Tower Garden School Purchase Information page.
Would you like to grow produce on your school grounds for your school and community? How about help your kids understand where their food comes from and the joy of growing their own veggies? Coordinating both outdoor and indoor gardening can be a difficult task for school administration and teachers. Keep reading for how Keep It Watered can help bring your dreams into reality!
Email Steve at steve@keepitwatered.com for a free, 30-minute initial remote consultation.
Two On-site Visits
Two on-site visits from Steve Koontz of Keep It Watered, within a 6 month period, in which you get:
Initial On-site Visit
We will meet with your school principal and a few key teachers
- Determine Goals for School Gardening
- Identify Project Champions
- Identify Potential Funding Opportunities
- Assign a Point Person
Between visits
We will work with you remote to:
- Hone the vision and goals for the school gardens
- Determine equipment and partnerships needed
- Create a budget
- Identify specific organizations and apply for funding
Follow-up Visit
We meet with school champions and prepare to launch the plan.
- Communicate the vision and goals of the plan
- Gain valuable feedback on the plan
- Make assignments to champions
Cost
Cost for 2 onsite visits and 6 months of support = $750 (plus travel).
Want to learn more? Email Steve at steve@keepitwatered.com for a free, 30-minute initial remote consultation.
Determine Goals for School Gardening
It’s important to begin to work through the focus of your school gardens. Will you grow for education? Donate to school pantries? Provide food for the cafeteria? Something else? A final plan doesn’t need to be in place after this first meeting, but we’ll start looking at ideas.
Identify Your School Champions
Your school champions are the people who want to make the project happen. Although numbers may vary, look for 3 students, 3 teachers, 3 parents, and at least 1 local business, who will get behind the project and, not only see it to completion, but be committed to it’s long-term success.
Identify Potential Funding
During this first meeting we’ll begin talking about funding opportunities. Parents’ places of employment can be a great place to start.
Assign Point Person
It’s best to have one staff person from the school assigned as the point person. This could be the principal, but usually it’s a teacher who wants to see the project succeed. During this meeting we’ll identify the individual that I’ll communicate with on a regular basis. This individual will be the liaison for the other champions.