Learning about growing and plants
Gaining practical knowledge of cultivation and plants
Through the full arc from sowing to harvest, people naturally acquire growing skills and knowledge of plants and seasons. School gardens and citizen courses serve as vessels for that learning.
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Cases where this shows up
Niigata City Agri Park
JPNiigata, Niigata, Japan
Japan's first public educational farm, developed by Niigata City (opened 2014). Citizens and families experience growing, harvesting, livestock, and rice-flour pizza making to learn about food and farming.
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Soil Born Farms — American River Ranch (Rancho Cordova, California)
USRancho Cordova, California, United States
A nonprofit farming about 55 acres of county-owned land inside the American River Parkway at Rancho Cordova, near Sacramento, as an organic farm and food-and-environment education centre. It marked 25 years in 2025. Alongside growing, it restores riparian habitat, and the site includes classrooms, a certified kitchen, a native plant nursery and an outdoor classroom.
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Hadiqaa – Education City Micro-Farm community garden (Doha, Qatar)
QADoha, Qatar
A community garden run at the Micro-Farm inside Education City, Doha, where residents can register for a bed and grow their own food. The name Hadiqaa (حديقة) is Arabic for "garden". To make growing possible in a Gulf climate that nears 50°C in summer, it runs a year-round programme of workshops on soil, sowing, composting and winter vegetables, treating growing skills themselves as a shared asset.
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Edible Schoolyard at Aiwa Elementary, Tama
JPTama, Japan
In 2014 Aiwa Elementary in Tama became Japan's first Edible Schoolyard, modeled on Alice Waters' Berkeley program. The school garden and kitchen serve as 'living classrooms' where children learn through all five senses, from sowing to harvest, cooking and eating, as a formal subject. Pupils experience nutrient cycles, the interconnection of life and ties to their community.
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Hakata Honeybee Project
JPFukuoka, Japan
A Fukuoka (Hakata) based NPO devoted to urban beekeeping and public outreach about honeybees. Under the motto that a town where bees fly is a good town, it keeps bees on building rooftops and other sites, drawing attention to the city's vanishing nature and linking people with nature and their community.
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Kokubunji Citizen Agriculture College & Farm-Support Volunteers
JPKokubunji, Tokyo, Japan
Kokubunji launched farm-support volunteering in 1996 and certifies residents who learn cultivation year-round at its Citizen Agriculture College, introducing them to local farmers. About 80 volunteers are now active, and the city also supports six experience farms — a workforce-building urban-agriculture policy.
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Supporting research
Vegetable Growing as a Teaching Material for Environmental Education : (1) Utilization of LISH (Low-Input Sustainable Horticulture) and Vegetable Garden as a School Garden
At Keisen Women's College farm in Japan, the potential of using Low-Input Sustainable Horticulture (LISH) and vegetable gardening as environmental education materials was investigated over 15 years, starting in 1984. The study found that 16 different vegetable varieties could be grown organically, but cucumbers, other fruit/vegetables, and Cruciferae were virtually impossible to grow organically. However, damage could be reduced for some varieties through specific cultivation methods, and the vegetable garden was found to maintain beauty even in cold seasons and provide a suitable hands-on learning experience for environment and food.
智 藤田, Satoshi FUJITA · 2000 · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB)
The school culture of school gardens in Sicily. Textual and discourse analysis on the learning objectives
This article analyzes the school culture of school gardens in Sicily, examining how they are conceived, the value assigned by the teaching community, and expected outcomes. Data from 49 surveyed schools, part of a regional mapping of educational projects on soil cultivation, were analyzed using quantitative textual analysis. The study interprets meanings of key concepts and their relationships based on recurrent morphemes and their contexts.
Giuseppe Carmelo Pillera · 2018 · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
Education From a Gardener’s Perspective
In Fall 2018, a social work professor in the United States designed a course for graduate students across social work, education, and seminary schools, based on permaculture design principles. Students addressed community challenges like food insecurity and K-12 student disengagement by supporting a local school garden. This pedagogy aimed to foster holistic and relevant learning experiences.
Stephanie C. Boddie · 2021 · Social Work & Christianity
Proyecto L’Hort 2.0 una herramienta innovadora que contribuye al desarrollo de competencias básicas: una experiencia interdisciplinar
Framing the school garden as an educational resource that helps students approach the natural environment and develop basic skills through interdisciplinary experiences, the L'Hort 2.0 project in Spain built a virtual environment based on the school garden to manage ICT content linking activities outside the classroom with course guides. It proceeded through an active, collaborative methodology in three phases: preparing and designing the web environment across six thematic areas, developing educational materials, and evaluating their usefulness in the classroom and effectiveness in the learning process. The project reports high student involvement in the learning process and improved assessment results that better reflected the skills students had attained.
Amparo Hurtado Soler, Ana María Botella Nicolás, José Cantó Doménech et al. · 2014 · ugr.es