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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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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Huerto Tlatelolco (Cultiva Ciudad)
MXMexico City, Mexico
A 1,650 m² urban farm on an earthquake-cleared site in Mexico City's Tlatelolco district. Growing by agroecological principles, with an edible forest and seed bank at its heart, it delivers food education as a model of agrarian urbanism.
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Rooftop Republic
HKHong Kong, Hong Kong
Founded in 2015, this Hong Kong social enterprise turns underused spaces such as rooftops into organic farms, having built 50+ urban farms across the city, and links food-loss reduction with education by composting building food waste back into the farms.
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Skip Garden by Global Generation
GBLondon, United Kingdom
A movable organic garden built inside builders' skips in the middle of the King's Cross redevelopment in London. Made largely (~90%) from reclaimed materials, with beehives and bug hotels, it turned a gap space into a site for youth education and 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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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
Connecting Learning and Play in Farm-to-School Programs: Children's Culture, Local School Context and Nested Inequalities
A study of how farm-to-school educators combine education and play in a student-centered learning environment, considering children's culture, local school context, and nested inequalities.
· 2020 · Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition