Garden of Learning

Garden of Learning is an award winning program that allows schools to start and sustain a successful academic garden program. It includes 10 CDs with materials to help you initiate, implement and sustain a successful school garden program:

The Garden System - A system for starting and sustaining elementary school garden programs.

• Everything you need to organize, get started and keep going.
• Flexible for schools and easy for teachers.
• How to use your garden as an outdoor classroom.
• The role of teachers, students and volunteers.
• Includes: The Owner’s Manual, a detailed step-by-step operating guide, recruitment and participation forms, checklists, plot signs, rule signs, best practices, sample newsletters, and more.

A Year in the Garden – K-1, 2-3, 4-5, 6+ curriculum that includes a school years worth of lessons presented in sequence of a typical school year.

• 143 pages worth of lessons in science, math, language arts, fine arts, nutrition, humanities, history, social & environmental studies and agriculture.
• Included are grade level worksheets requiring students to write, calculate, record observations, collect data and use a microscope. Other lessons are labor intensive getting the jobs of a real organic garden done!
• Get your gardens planted, weeded, soil amended, mulched, harvested, vermicomposting started, beneficial insects introduced, and more.
• Students approach their work as Scientist, Ecologist, Entomologist, Biologist and Botanist.

Year Two in the Garden - K-1, 2-3, 4-5, 6+ curriculum that includes a school years worth of lessons presented in sequence of a typical school year.

• Build on your program and keep it fresh with new lessons in planting, soil, insects, vermicomposting, scientific method, mircoscopic studies, and more.
• 154 pages worth of lessons in science, math, language arts, fine arts, nutrition, humanities, history, social & environmental studies and agriculture.
• Included are grade level worksheets requiring students to write, calculate, record observations, collect data and use a microscope. Other lessons are labor intensive getting the jobs of a real organic garden done!
• Get your gardens replanted, weeded, soil amended, mulched, harvested, vermicomposting started, beneficial insects introduced, and more. Students approach their work as Scientist, Ecologist, Entomologist, Biologist and Botanist.

The Farmer’s Market – What better way to get your garden harvested, raise funds and give students a lesson in commerce?

• Raise funds and show-case your program!
• Build enthusiasm for your program
• Everything you need to organize, harvest and put on your market.
• Till all proceeds directly back into your program.
• Includes: recruitment and participation forms, newsletter, invitation, price list, recipes and more.
• After their spring harvest, students will be busy replanting the garden.