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Occidental Arts & Ecology Center near Sepastapol, California, offers a "teachers in the garden" training that is exceptional. 

This five-day intensive residential training at the 80 acre OAEC site offers hands-on skills and theoretical approaches to create and sustain school garden programs. The course includes sessions on integrating the garden into curricula and state standards, as well as nutrition, recycling and vermiculture, composting, project-based learning, art, team building and fundraising. Skills and tools that enhanced my garden program at Billy Mitchell Elementary School garden.