The Power of Garden Based Learning

Welcome to Farm to School Northeast, a podcast where we explore the creative ways that local food is getting into school cafeterias and how food system education is playing out in classrooms and school gardens across the northeast. Today we have a chance to talk with Jen Reese, Science and Garden Coordinator with Amherst and Pelham Public Schools and garden educator Leila Tunnell, who co-lead the Amherst Elementary School Garden Program in Amherst, Massachusetts. The program believes in the power of garden based learning to inspire joy and help build a more just and sustainable world, and provides all students in grades K-6 with year-round garden based learning in both school garden spaces as well as in classrooms.