Below are resources referenced in the steps and other helpful websites and ideas to help you along your journey as you design a green space for your school or community. When planning your garden keep in mind that a greenspace can also be a wildlife or habitat garden as well as a vegetable garden and a place to learn and relax. 

Smithsonian Gardens:

• Smithsonian Gardens Community of Gardens website: https://communityofgardens.si.edu/
• Smithsonian Gardens garden education resources: https://gardens.si.edu/learn/for-educators/

Budget and Business Plan:

• School Garden Budget Worksheet (Word document)
• Finance in the Classroom: http://financeintheclassroom.org/teacher/print.shtml
• Scholastic Financial Literacy: http://www.scholastic.com/browse/collection.jsp?id=886

Design:

• School Garden Site Analysis Worksheet (Word document)
• "How to Design a Better Wildlife Garden" from the National Wildlife Federation: https://www.nwf.org/-/media/Documents/PDFs/Garden-for-Wildlife/Ecological-Landscape-fact-sheet.ashx?la=en&hash=3E0016C934D84DD49B70EAA0780ED8377BC80B5C
• Mathematics Assessment Project lesson on drawing a garden to scale: http://map.mathshell.org/lessons.php?collection=8&unit=7310
• Sketch Up, a digital 3D design program: https://www.sketchup.com/products/sketchup-free
• Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s “Ready, Set, Design” lesson: http://www.cooperhewitt.org/2011/09/09/ready-set-design/

Electronic Surveys:

• Survey Monkey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/
• Google Forms: https://www.google.com/forms/about/

Grant opportunities:

• USDA Farm to School Grant Program: http://www.fns.usda.gov/farmtoschool/farm-school-grant-program

Planting:

• Find Plants by zip code that host significant numbers of butterflies and attract birds by the National Wildlife Federation https://www.nwf.org/NativePlantFinder/
• Pollinator Partnership Ecoregion Planting Guide: http://pollinator.org/guides
• Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder: http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/plantfinder/plantfindersearch.aspx
• USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map: http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/
• USDA Plant Database: http://plants.usda.gov/java/

Soil testing:

• Locate a soil lab at a land-grant university near you: https://nifa.usda.gov/land-grant-colleges-and-universities-partner-website-directory