Tips & Tricks

Need some additional guidance while expanding your green thumb? No worries, Seed St. Louis has a library of educational resources to support your gardening adventures. Explore our variety of Tips & Tricks below!

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Asset Based Community Development (ABCD)

According to LaManda Joy the author of Start A CommunityFood Garden, Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) is an approach that helps communities and groups focus on what they do have instead of what they don’t. The ABCD approach is very powerful because instead of creating anxiety about what a community may be lacking it encourages group to celebrate […]

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The St. Louis Metro Police Dept. Joins Forces with Gateway Greening and SPACE Architecture + Design to bring “Little Free Libraries” to Low Access Areas in St. Louis City

(ST. LOUIS, MO., August 26, 2015)… A unique partnership between St. Louis designers, police officers and gardeners from Gateway Greening is helping to provide free books to those who may not have access to a library, as part of the international “Little Free Library” movement. Created in Wisconsin in 2009, the Little Free Library initiative […]

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Peppers Maybe Hot

I couldn’t care less about the school garden. That’s what I would have told you when Brian and I first toured Mallinckrodt, in the fall of 2011, looking for a school for our son, Milo. You’ve maybe seen that Facebook meme, “I’m outdoorsy in the sense that I like drinking wine on patios”? That’s me. […]

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Gateway Greening Garden Class Volunteer: Information & Guidelines

Gateway Greening Garden Class Volunteer Information & Guidelines Garden Class Program What is Gateway Greening’s Garden Class? Garden Class is an effort started in 2013 by Gateway Greening and SLPS to get students learning outdoors for an hour every week. Each participating school gets a dedicated Gateway Greening educator, who teaches garden-based science and other […]

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What Makes a School Garden Successful?

Why are school gardens good? One can wake up everyday with a new reason for why they are an invaluable school and community resource. Even then, through the summer, most school garden go fallow. Do you wonder what you could do for your school garden? Mallinckrodt School Garden is a good place to turn to […]

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Seed St. Louis hosts over 40 free virtual classes throughout the year. Our staff provides a wide variety of classes for all gardening enthusiasts.

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Seed St. Louis Planting Calendar

Need some guidance planning your garden? Download a free copy of our Seed St. Louis Planting Calendar to feel confident when you plant and harvest your bounty!

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