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.

Getting kids to eat
Engaging kids in meal preparation and other "tricks" can slowly make worlds of difference in a child’s attitude toward new foods.
Website helps people clean without chemicals
New cleaning kits available to help parents green their homes.
New book teaches children about soil
A new children’s book, Soil! Get the Inside Scoop, aims to teach kids about the importance of soil and the role it plays on earth.
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.