The 2026 School Garden Leadership Institute - June 22-27, 2026 - Apply by January 30th!

Every year, the School Garden Leadership Institute provides an opportunity for school garden professionals from across the country to collaborate, learn from one another, and develop resources to share with a national audience. In this way, we all become able to better support school gardens in our regions, and also advance the national school garden movement.

The 2026 cohort will be comprised of up to 20 teams of two. Teams may be individuals from the same organization or individuals from different organizations collaborating on supporting multiple school gardens in the same region or school district.

For 2026, we are particularly seeking teams of two from organizations that:

• Support 4 or more school gardens in their district or region

• Will be implementing training for garden-based educators in the 2026-2027 school year

• Are willing to administer a pre-designed school garden program assessment survey to their partner or district school sites with the purpose of building long-term program capacity through enhancing their student experiences, physical garden sites, fundraising, and/or community involvement.

Details and apply here: https://www.lifelab.org/leadership-institute