Presents a portrait of a Santa Fe community garden, revealing how students and other citizens work together to select and grow annual plants, create compost, release butterflies, harvest edibles, and protect garden beds for the winter--

"Garden-based environmental education addresses ecological literacy in the context of schoolyard gardens. This study seeks to elucidate the topics and factors that influence student engagement while learning in these schoolyard spaces, through a mixed-methods case study at a San Francisco public elementary school. Data were collected from student work, student interviews, teacher interviews, and educator observations of the garden-based environmental...

A story about children working in the school garden teaches facts about the growth cycle, gardening, food supply, and working together. Includes other resources for those interested in starting a school garden.

The purpose of this study is to examine the importance of Garden-Based Learning (GBL) for children. The exploration of literature on the subject of GBL will examine where the idea of GBL originated and what has transpired since. Rationale for GBL programs' importance will be given to show how GBL influences children's development academically, socially, nutritionally, physically, and morally. To expand on the rationale, discussion will include how...

"This book explores the urban school garden as a bridge between environmental action and thought. As a small-scale response to global issues around access to food and land, urban school gardens promote practical knowledge of farming as well as help renew cultural ideals of shared space and mutual support for the organic, built environment. Through a comprehensive history of school garden practice rooted in Eastern industrial cities, to case studies...

Fast-paced urban, industrialized lifestyles encourage increasing dependence on the built environment, while simultaneously discouraging connection with the natural environment. Research shows that these unhealthful food practices correlate with increasing rates of obesity, and chronic diseases in our youth. The solutions to these problems lay in our own backyards and communities. Nationwide, school-based garden ecoliteracy programs have been developed...