Tools on this page:
- Low-Literacy Needs Assessment & Guidelines for Best Practices
- Sowing the Seeds of Success: our web-based garden program planning tool designed in partnership with the American Horticultural Society
Low-Literacy Needs Assessment & Guidelines for Best Practices
A Low-Literacy Needs Assessment & Guidelines for Best Practices: How Do We Best Reach This Audience? Implemented through a 2018-2019 NYS IPM Grant. Learn more in the Guidelines for Best Practices (PDF).
Sowing the Seeds of Success
Sowing the Seeds of Success provides background information along with downloadable program development exercises to engage you and your team.
Designed in partnership with the American Horticultural Society, Sowing the Seeds of Success is designed to walk you through the organizational aspects of a gardening program. Find tools to help start, sustain, expand, and reflect on your program. Teachers, parents, community leaders, horticulturists, Master Gardeners, youth leaders, and other interested adults will find the process a useful tool. In fact, this same process can be useful for just about any community project.
- Planning & Organizing: Documents and resources to help you plan, establish, grow and manage your garden project. Topics include establishing partnerships, effective youth engagement, working with volunteers and sustaining the garden project.
- Benefits & Research: Support your work with these research-based findings.
- Fundraising & Promotion: Regardless of the scope or audience of your garden project, it’s likely you will have to raise funds or secure donations. Topics include grassroots fundraising, applying for grants, and researching funding opportunities. You’ll also find example brochures, letters, and press releases to help you spread the word about your program.
- Evaluation Toolkit: Easy-to-use guidance for program improvement and documentation. The materials are designed for educators with minimum experience with evaluation.
Want to download and print the full resource or print certain parts? Click here for a downloadable PDF of Sowing the Seeds of Success.
