Newsletters

The Maine School Garden Network publishes a monthly newsletter geared towards the needs of school garden coordinators and educators. We distribute our newsletter to our mailing list as well as our Facebook page and website.

We offer monthly themes to provide more in depth coverage as well as monthly features to support and promote school gardens such as the:

Grant of the Month
Harvest of the Month
Monthly Gardening Ideas

School Garden of the Month Profile
Partner Profile
Sponsor of the Month

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This month’s theme is Using Your School Garden to Teach Different Grade Levels!

How to Submit An Article for the Newsletter

Would you like to submit an article for our 2024 newsletter?!

Our newsletters are sent to 1000+ readers every month and shared on our Facebook page and uploaded to our website.
For any articles that include photos of children and students, we require a signed Photo Release Form.
The deadline for submission is the 17th of the month.

We are looking for school garden coordinators, educators and students who want to share their hard earned wisdom with other school gardeners for the following monthly themes!

Newsletter Themes

January How To Start (or Rejuvenate) a School Garden view
February Equity and Inclusion in the School Garden view
March Connecting School Gardens: Teachers and School Administrators view
April Summer Maintenance view
May Financing a School Garden and School Garden Coordinator view
June How to Cultivate Community Partnerships view
July Planning Field Trips view
August Food for Cafeteria and Cooking In Your School Garden view
September Using Your School Garden to Teach Different Grade Levels view
October Training Opportunities for School Gardeners
November End of the Season Activities
December Winter and Indoor Gardening

Interested? Questions? Contact susan@msgn.org.

Photo Release Form

For any articles that include photographs of children, we require a signed Photo Release Form. Please return form to info@msgn.org or mail to MSGN 28 State House Station Augusta, ME 04333. Thank you.

Sponsor of the Month

We offer a sponsorship opportunity which has the option of a donation of a product for school gardens plus a business or organization logo on our website and publicity in our newsletter in the form of a profile.

If you are interested in being a Sponsor of the Month, please contact Susan Sager at susan@msgn.org. Thank you.