Garden Classrooms are interactive,
educational gardens
providing students the chance
to experience
hands-on learning about history, nature,
weather, seasons, life cycles, and composting.
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Garden-based education
Education is more effective and enjoyable when students are excited about
the subject and want to learn!
Garden-based education is concrete learning.
Students become actively involved in the process of discovery.
School Gardens provide a Living Laboratory for teachers to connect to
curriculum and offer differentiated lessons for the whole class.
Hands On History Inc. is available to work with you to develop a Garden
Classroom for your school.
Garden development plan:
 Site selection and garden design
Professional development for teachers to use garden based education to teach NY State Science curriculum
Coordinate community support for the garden to maintain it during the summer
Help in finding and developing financial resources for your garden
Ongoing technical support
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Master Gardener
Alice Seeger is a Master Gardener with Cornell Cooperative Extension in
Dutchess County. She has 15 years experience as a teaching artist
presenting hands-on workshops to student Grades K-9. She is passionate
about sharing the joy of gardening and teaching sustainability in our
changing world.
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School Gardens Provide:
Academic Achievement
Environmental Stewardship
Good Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyle
Community and Social Development
Connecting kids to gardens will begin to make a paradigm shift from a
planet in environmental degradation to a healthy, sustainable ecosystem.
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A brief four part history of the United States
community garden movement:
the Potato Patch Movement, Liberty Gardens,
Relief Gardens and Victory Gardens.
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The Potato Patch Movement
In the late 1800's cities in America were growing rapidly. Many people
were out of work. Across the country cities began offering garden plots to
people so they could grow their own food.
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Liberty Gardens
The U.S. Government recruited people to grow Liberty Gardens during World
War I. Growing your own food was a way that every American could
contribute to the war effort.
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Relief Gardens
The Great Depression began in the 1930's Relief Gardens were promoted to
improve people's spirits and provide work and food.
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Victory Gardens
When the U.S. entered World War II, the government launched a Victory
Garden campaign. By 1944, twenty million gardens produced fourty-four percent of the fresh
vegetables in the U.S.
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