Table of Contents Chapter 1 Getting Into Gardening 4 Chapter 2 Starting a Garden 16 Chapter 3 Why Grow a Garden 28 Chapter 4 Challenges of Gardening 38 Chapter 5 Gardening Trends 48 Working as a Community Farm Director 60 Glossary 61 Source Notes 61 Selected Bibliography 62 Further Information 63 Index 64
1 Getting Into Gardening During the spring and summer of 2014 a garden bloomed in the courtyard of Mount Pleasant Elementary School MPE in Livingston New Jersey Parent volunteers and MPE Counselor Jennifer Kelner conceived the garden idea and the school embraced the thought of teaching students about healthful eating and gardening The goal was to show students where food comes from prompt kids to try new foods and give them a hands-on gardening experience Together students parents teachers and the principal obtained a grant from a local farmers market as well as a donation of lumber Several volunteer families built six raised beds in an unused courtyard and a landscaping company volunteered to clean the space move soil and prepare the garden beds Students quickly became involved They chose to plant foods that grow well in New Jersey including tomatoes eggplant basil corn chives peas and yellow squash Students brought recycled containers to use as starting pots They planted seeds watched them grow into seedlings and School gardens are on the rise across the United States 4
Urban Gardening
School and community gardens are popping up around the United States, providing fresh produce even in the most crowded spaces in the country.
About This Book
By: Carol Hand
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Published by: Lerner Publications an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group
