Back to Basics: Interdisciplinary Teaching Using School Gardens

Urban Farm DB summary

This interview-format article profiles Lynn Prosen, a science teacher and garden education coordinator at Gill St. Bernard's, a day school in Gladstone, New Jersey, USA, who teaches science from preschool through fourth grade. The school's roughly two-acre garden is divided into four 70 x 80 ft plots — one with raised beds, two dedicated to growing food for the dining hall and farm — alongside a 110-tree apple orchard and beehives for honey production.