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Gardening Web Sites Food Safety Web Sites Nutrition Web Sites Food Security Web Sites Food Preservation Web Sites Gardening Web Sites California Department of Education: A Garden in Every School http://www.cde.ca.gov/nsd/nets/g_index.htm Cornell Composting: Composting in Schools http://compost.css.cornell.edu/schools.html Edible School Yard, Berkeley California http://www.edibleschoolyard.org Friends of Burlington Gardens http://www.burlingtongardens.org Gardening Launch Pad http://gardeninglaunchpad.com/kids.html A huge page of curriculum and activity links Texas A&M University http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu Includes many resources from research projects involving garden-based learning, to practical tips and curriculum for working with youth. Michigan 4-H Child’s Garden http://4hgarden.msu.edu/main.html National Gardening Association http://www.garden.org http://kidsgardening.com Lists of youth garden grant opportunities and a kid’s gardening page. University of California School Gardens http://commserv.ucdavis.edu/CESanDiego/Schlgrdn/HomePage.html University of California Center for Youth Development http://fourhcyd.ucdavis.edu Includes a research paper on the history and educational implications of garden-based learning. University of Florida Agricultural Extension School Gardens http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/ggk/schgard.htm Food Safety Web Sites Fight Bac! Education Program Presenter’s Guide for K-3 Partnerships for Food Safety Education http://www.fightbac.org USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service http://www.fsis.usda.gov Food Safety Information Center http://www.nal.usda.gov/foodsafety Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov Nutrition Web Sites Five-A-Day for Better Health http://dccps.nci.nih.gov/5aday Healthy Body Calculator http://www.dietitian.com Tufts Nutrition Navigator http://www.navigator.tufts.edu USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion http://www.usda.gov USDA Food and Nutrition Information Service http://www.nalusda.gov Food Security Web Sites America’s Second Harvest http://www.secondharvest.org Food First http://www.foodfirst.org Food for the Hungry http://www.fh.org Freedom from Hunger http://www.freefromhunger.org Help for the Hungry http://www.helpforthehungry.org The Hunger Project http://www.thp.org Plant a Row for the Hungry http://www.gwaa.org/par Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger http://www.vtnohunger.org VT Department of Education—Child Nutrition Programs http://www.state.vt.us/educ/nutrition Food Preservation Web Sites National Center for Food Preservation http://www.uga.edu/nchfp Home Food Preservation Data Base http://foodsafety.cas.psu.edu/presqueryform.cfm