Volume 12 Fall 2006
GrowingPeopleNews—GrowingPeopleNews
G a r d e n e r s i n C o m m u n i t y D e v e l o p m e n t
Project Report: Gardening Education
The heart of Gardeners in Community Development’s program is gardening education.
Our
gardens are...
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Volume 12 Fall 2006
GrowingPeopleNews—GrowingPeopleNews
G a r d e n e r s i n C o m m u n i t y D e v e l o p m e n t
Project Report: Gardening Education
The heart of Gardeners in Community Development’s program is gardening education.
Our
gardens are classrooms for adults and children.
While indoor workshops are held when needed,
most of our training occurs “hands-on” out in real
gardens where learning comes through gardening
activities, observing nature, and having more
experienced gardeners share what they know.
This
in-garden training brings skills that go well beyond
classroom learning.
Being able to efficiently shape
a garden bed, spread mulch, transplant seedlings, or
harvest mustard greens, involves motor skills and
hand-eye coordination, and learning to use tools and
your body that comes only from physically doing
these things yourself.
Experienced gardeners may read books, but also
read nature.
It is about reading the weather,
moisture and smell of earth and compost, fe
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