Community
The Master Gardener Association School Garden Program connected Rosa Parks with a garden consultant ( our consultant is Judy) who has directed us to many resources within their school garden program. Access to many web resources on their Garden Links page can help with determining the basic needs (tools, irrigation, fencing, storage) to offering suggestions on bed sizes, soil preparation, composting, weed and pest control, and summer maintenance

Nutrition Education
San Diego Nutrition Network and UCSD Community Pediatrics team with Rosa Parks teachers to integrate nutrition concepts and "Five a Day" materials into garden lesson plans. UCSD Nutrition Link health educators make monthly visits to all 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classrooms with followup nutrition activities on the Nutrition Link website. (click on Rosa Parks: user name: parks and password: rosa) A few "healthy" websites from their site are:

• In the Nutrition Explorations Parents section, you'll find practical, up-to-date information you can use to balance good nutrition and a busy family schedule, including recipes, expert interviews, snack and meal tips, a Food Guide Pyramid overview, and more!
  
• Team Nutrition has created several parent pages, full of fun and informative activities you and your child can do together.
  
• The California 5 a Day-for Better Health! Campaign, as part of the California Nutrition Network for Healthy, Active Families, works with local, state, and national partners to build healthy communities.
  
• California Project Lean provides you with a wealth of resources, evaluations, articles and materials for promoting healthy eating and physical activity.
  
• California Project Lean Teen Website promotes healthy eating and physical activity. Through the program, student advocates are trained in the basics of nutrition, physical activity, advertising and working with the media.
  

The Registered Dietitian from the City Heights Wellness Center can provide monthly nutrition education sessions in the monthly parent group meetings, linking foods grown in the garden with healthy food consumption. Parents are invited to participate in various educational and social activities in the garden and/or Wellness Center that link the garden activities with nutrition and physical activity.

Parents
Our community gardener engages parents in garden activities to motivate child-parent interaction and to link nutrition (healthy diet and food consumption) with learning and healthy lifestyles. The Nutrition Link webpage includes a section for parents with recipes and nutrition websites. This Spring, we are beginning to put together our first recipe book with the help of our parents. Student lesson activitiess in the garden include a recipe page handout that encourages them to share fruit and vegetable and recipes unique to their culture.

Cesar Chavez Club (sustainability, worms, garden care, leadership)
The Chavistas work in the gardenafter school. Club members are learning vermiculture. Ten of the sixteen members are caring for one worm bin at home. They are learning concepts of recycling and decomposition. Soon they will use these worm bins to make presentations in our Rosa Parks classrooms to spread the word about vermicomposting. We are building leadership and learning science and the same time.