Teaching Life Skills in a Garden Classroom

Food Garden Life Show: Helping You Harvest More from Your Edible Garden, Vegetable Garden, and Edible Landscaping · Jul 14, 2020 · 28m

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School garden educator Shannon Stewart thinks of herself as an emerging seedling amongst old growth forests.

Stewart, who teaches in San Diego, California, says that this is her second career—and as a “seedling” in the the field of school gardens.

She uses the garden to teach:

health and nutrition

science

critical thinking

teamwork

and even public speaking