Resources for Educators
Kids love strawberries! Visiting a strawberry farm, preparing strawberry foods, and simply eating fresh strawberries provide delicious educational opportunities for many kinds of lessons. Please feel free to use any of the information you find on our website that you and the children you work with may find useful, fun, and educational.
Strawberry Time Activity & Coloring Booklet
This 16-page original coloring/activity booklet published by the North Carolina Strawberry Association tells the story of how strawberries are produced by the Southeast plasticulture method in simple text. This is the method we use at Strawberries on 903. It also includes easy recipes and activity pages suited to a wide range of ages.
Download Strawberry Time Activity & Coloring Booklet (PDF)
Starting a School Strawberry Garden
Schoolyard strawberry gardens provide rich spaces for students and teachers to explore concepts relevant to their curricula in a hands-on, experiential way. A strawberry garden, modeled on the annual hill production system used by farmers in the southeastern United States, fits neatly into the traditional-year calendar for elementary schools, with students beginning school in late August and finishing the year in June. This coincides with the southeastern strawberry production system in which strawberry plants are set into the ground between late September through early October, and the fruit is harvested in late April–early May. This growing schedule enables students to observe the life cycle of the strawberry plant throughout the school year.
For more information, please download Teach From The Garden: Strawberries. This publication provided by the NC Cooperative Extension Agency will provide all the information you need to start a successful strawberry garden at school.
Field Trips
We are currently not offering school field trips.