The manual is an easy-to-use guide designed to help educators with access to educational greenhouses. The manual has answers to questions about:

• planting gardens,
• growing for Farm to School programs, and
• integrating plant science into an existing curriculum.

The goal of the manual is to help educators maximize the potential of new and existing school greenhouses. It opens with a basic explanation of greenhouses. There are explanations on how to integrate greenhouse use into classroom and out-of-classroom learning. It contains lesson plans and information on:

• greenhouse operation,
• growing plants,
• starting seeds,
• plant nutrition,
• disease and pest management,
• greenhouse budgeting, and
• succession planting.

“NCAT has been thrilled to bring our expertise to the efficient and curriculum-based use of educational greenhouses,” said Andy Pressman, NCAT Northeast Regional Director and contributing author to the manual.

The greenhouse manual can be downloaded, for free, at https://attra.ncat.org/product/usbg-greenhouse-manual/.