To be honest with you for me gardening with kids started as an act of activism and not as a selfish act that would benefit ME immediately. But I didn't know that I was up for a huge pleasant surprise that kept on surprising for years. It all started with the social justice and environmental activ...

Last week, I shared WHY having your School Garden Lesson Plans nailed, is the path to having a beautiful and producing school garden you can teach your curriculum in without the usual headaches of managing a garden. You can read Part 1 here:

https://www.kidsgrowingcity.ca/blog/Part1-School-Garde...

By now, you already know that having a good series of lesson plans for your school garden is the key to creating an amazing school garden, and to gaining support from administrators towards it.

… and when you look at the disappointing results other teachers get and then look closer and realiz...

If I say grow a School Garden, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind?

If you’re like most teachers you immediately think, “no way! Who wants that kind of headache?”…

OR, if you’re open to the idea (and since you’re here I think you are) then you’d imagine having to organize somethin...