Whited Douglas Elementary

School gardens are a wonderful way to use the schoolyard as a classroom, reconnect students with the natural world and the true source of their food, and teach them valuable gardening and agriculture concepts and skills that integrate with several subjects, such as math, science, art, health and physical education, and social studies, as well as several educational goals, including personal and social responsibility. Our goal is to teach an all-encompassing curriculum that connects the garden with other disciplines and allows students to connect the learning in the garden to both school learning and real life experiences. The use of the garden as a central gathering and meeting place for the students and possibly even community. To encourage local, national, and international connections with students through growing and eating food, and various cultural practices involving plants.

This program is supported by .