Why a School Garden?

A girl loading soil into a container

 Why a School Garden?

Successful and Educational Schoolyard Gardening Ideas For Kids are within your reach!  School gardens provide an interesting and practical platform for teaching core academic concepts and reinforcing stardard based TEKS , such as math, science, language arts, and social studies. Students learn hands-on lessons by cultivating a garden from seed to harvest. Schoolyard gardening activities can also inspire further learning through field trips and experiments. Teachers can use the school garden to demonstrate the importance of natural resources, the impact of farming on ecosystems, and more!  This promotes career readiness in horticulture, landscape design, water conservation and various other careers. 

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