I have been meaning to post about this since the beginning of summer!
Remember that educational garden project I was working on? (We installed an educational garden at a local elementary school. It will be used for all the core curriculum classwork including science, math, language arts, etc.)
Well, you only got to see the “BEFORE” garden photos…
And now I wanted to show you some of the “AFTER” garden photos…
Here is one of the “Three Sisters” gardens planted by a third grade class.
Here a group of students check out the lamb’s ears in a fifth grade colonial garden.
The garden has been a HUGE success.
In fact, HUGE does not even cover the magnitude of the success. Gardening has sparked something in these kids and they are absolutely engrossed in the entire process. It has been very rewarding to see so many children getting an education in nature, horticulture and the joy of growing food…and they don’t even know they are learning!
For a video of our garden installation, GO HERE.
Here are some other posts on the subject:
Raising A Crop of Young Gardeners
Installing An Educational Garden
National Garden & Youth Symposium
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Theresa Loe blogs here about taking the garden full circle while striving for a more local, fresh-from-the-garden lifestyle. She is a TV producer, video host, freelance garden writer and a wrangler of chickens and children. (Not necessarily in that order.) For more information on these topics, you can subscribe to her free monthly newsletter.
Theresa Loe is the award- winning Co-Executive Producer & Canning Expert on Growing A Greener World TV. She blogs here about Living Homegrown®, local and fresh-from-the-garden. 
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Brava!!!!! Excellence in teaching! No better way to learn than by doing. And on top of that, they’re producing food. Beautiful gardens too.
Thanks Coneflower. I agree. They learn so much by just being in the garden and whant they learn “sticks” better as well.