Beth Saunders

Beth Saunders

Culturally-Responsive Hydroponics

Hands of kids reaching into a hydroponics system

Green Our Planet is a non-profit organization based in Nevada that promotes STEM learning, school garden education, and hydroponics in pre-K–12 schools across the country. Currently, they collaborate with 100 programs across 16 states, with most of the sites being…

Container Garden Science & GIVEAWAY

A container garden in brightly colored fabric pots

Science and gardening go hand in hand. Explore the scientific method with your young gardeners and discover what kind of container gardens are best for growing plants! Our “Container Garden Science Experiment” Garden Activity Pack is the perfect guide.  While…

Black History Month

Two kids holding sunflowers up to their faces, one as eyes and one in front of their nose

At KidsGardening, we celebrate Black History Month every February. It honors the legacy of African Americans, their role in shaping U.S. history, and the oppression they endured.  In 1926, Carter G. Woodson established “Negro History Week,” to commemorate the accomplishments…

Colah Tawkin — Black in the Garden

Two Black children's arms are each holding a marker and coloring in a coloring book

A friend of Colah compares her to a tree – grounded, growing, and thriving, despite an ever-changing environment. Like many gardeners, Colah Tawkin has learned many life lessons from plants, especially what they can teach us about resilience and adaptability.…

A Literary Garden

“It’s impossible to teach Walden and talk about Thoreau observing nature in a cinderblock classroom without windows,” says high school English teacher Jennifer Tianen. This belief is what inspired Jennifer to bring her students outside and to start a literary…

Advocating for Garden-Based Learning

“Gardening covers a lot of bases when it comes to student needs” says Kris Johnson, “Academic needs, social needs, emotional needs. It’s not just ‘ok we’re going to learn about plants,’ it’s not just nuts and bolts—the physical environment of…

Letting Kids Take the Lead

An adult and child harvesting a winter squash together. The child is smiling at the squash.

Program Spotlights: The Caring Center “I can recall being in preschool and having an experience that had a big impression on me—it made me want to become a chef,” says Erica Lewis, Food Service Manager at the Caring Center in…

Teaching Compassion In The Garden

Compassion Flower Garden Guide words along with Mrs Meyers Clean Day and KidsGardening logos on top of a child's hands gardening

Compassion Flower Project Garden Guide We are thrilled to have partnered with Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day to create the Compassion Flower Project Garden Guide, a downloadable guide to help families plant the seeds of compassion with six weeks of simple…

Project Climate Club

Project Climate Club members with oak tree seedlings in the cab of a truck.

Program Spotlights: Project Climate Club “I’ve always been a garden kid,” says Alexi Lindeman, a senior at Heritage High School in Brentwood, CA, and coordinator of a 2020 Carton 2 Garden project that received an Honorable Mention. “My dad’s an…

Kids Garden Month is here!

A collage of photos of children gardening, with the words Kids GARDEN month

April is here, and our annual celebration of kids in the garden is in full swing! This year, our Kids Garden Month contest asks kids to tell us what they LOVE about their garden. Already, we’ve gotten such amazing entries!…