School Garden Kicks Off with Celebrity

🍋 Lemon Camp: September 17 and 24Grow a healthy, productive lemon tree in a pot. In these two live online sessions, Steven Biggs covers watering, feeding, pruning, repotting, pests, flowers and fruit—and how to get a lemon tree through the winter.Recordings are included, so you can watch afterwards if you can’t attend live.Learn more and register for Lemon Camp- - - Taking Math to the GardenIt started with a math lesson. A very boring math lesson.Educator Sonya Harris was trying to get a concept to stick. And the thing that got it to stick was the garden.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. So she did it with a fun celebrity event. 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