Planning a Successful School & Community Garden Program Summer 2026

For this week's journal entry, reflect on different ways that you might expand the base of support for your garden project. Did you gain any new insights or ideas from this week’s readings and exercises?

Are there new partnership opportunities in your community that you hadn’t considered before? Did you come up with any new ideas for recruiting and engaging volunteers? Please elaborate.

Feel free to reflect on any other insights or challenges that came up for you this week.

About Journal Entries...

Journal entries will help you reflect on what you have learned from each of the readings, discussions, and assignments within each module. Only your instructor will see these entries. There will be suggested topics for your entries each week; however, you are free to explore your own topics as long as they relate to the course as a whole. Your writings will help you build a relationship with the instructor, and to better understand yourself too.

You may approach your Journal entries as you wish, and keep in mind there is no "right" or "wrong" way. The purpose is for you to reflect on something that interests you, or anything you have learned so far in this course. Most important, how you will use this information to improve your professional practice and program planning. Your submissions should generally be a half page to full page in length. To submit your Journal Entries, please upload it as a Word document or .pdf.

Criteria for Journal Entries

• Evidence of connections to readings, thoughtful evaluation of course concepts and how they relate to your professional experience and practice.
• Reflective, consisting of well developed ideas – not just a descriptive summary of what you have learned.
• Submitted at the end of each module, in a timely manner, and at least one page in length.
• What have you learned from this experience?