School Gardens | Rodale Institute

Gardens are a wonderful place where families and schoolchildren can connect to nature and understand how things grow.

In this section you'll find gardening and garden-related activities and stories about award-winning kid-focused school and community gardens.

Urban Harvest

This grassroots citizens' group deep in the heart of Texas has started more than 100 community-oriented garden projects now flourishing in school yards, vacant lots, abandoned land and more.

History comes to life in a Michigan school garden

Teamwork, chickens and old-fashioned knowledge help the garden thrive.

Better to teach your large teens what to eat than encouraging them to diet
A study of 314 teen/parent pairs compared the parents' opinion of their child's weight status with what food-related habits they pursued.
Challenging economy has families eating more whole foods
Consumers are responding to the current economic climate by buying more basic ingredients and cooking from scratch at home.
Ordinary people take up gardening to save money on produce
With the recent increase in food prices, more and more people are starting their own gardens, and herb and vegetable seed sales are up by almost half from last year.
Victory gardens will help San Franciscans feed themselves
San Francisco’s Department of the Environment and Garden for the Environment have developed a project intended to help residents grow organic produce.
Mill Creek Farm offers something for the whole family
Mill Creek Farm is a nonprofit “collectively run urban education farm located near Philadelphia.
Charter school teaches organic tenets
The Learning Gate Community School is unlike other schools.