School Garden Kicks Off with Celebrity

Taking Math to the GardenIt started with a math lesson. A very boring math lesson.<br />Educator Sonya Harris was trying to get a concept to stick. And the thing that got it to stick was the garden.<br />A non-gardener, she saw how it could help kids take in ideas. But she wasn’t sure where to start once she got buy-in from the principal to make a garden. <br />So she did it with a fun celebrity event. <br />We talk about:Launching the school garden with a “yard-crashing” event featuring an HGTV starBringing the classroom to the garden — and the garden to the classroomCreating The Bullock Garden Project to help other educators start gardensFunding the non-profit project with a for-profit seed company, Garden Teachers YardResources for educators who want to incorporate gardening into the curriculum<br />