How can better design help teachers, parents, volunteers and students have a vibrant, useful, and meaningful outdoor classroom?
Let’s make the school garden more accessible and affordable for schools. Sponsored by GOOD, LAUSD, The USDA People’s Garden Initiative, The Environmental Media Association, The National Gardening Association, The Urban & Environmental Policy Institute, The California School Garden Network, and Mia Lehrer & Associates. A school garden teaches lessons that only nature can provide. A garden not only helps children understand where their food comes from, it teaches ecological literacy and teamwork, nutrition and problem-solving. Plus, any teacher at any school can use the garden to teach history, math, English, geography, engineering, business, and—of course—science, all within the standards of district-mandated curriculum. Gardens are an amazing resource for learning. Alice Waters gets it. Jamie Oliver gets it. Michelle Obama gets it, too. But not all schools have them. In Los Angeles, 100 amazing public school gardens exist. That seems like a good number until you consider that we have 9
