Teaching Kids to Protect Our Pollinators

Teaching Kids to Protect Our Pollinators

This summer at North Wind Day Camp in Canton, New York, 49 curious and intrepid campers, ages 7-12, earned the Pollinator Patch created by Cabot Creamery Cooperative and KidsGardening. The free patch program was developed to help children understand the importance of...
Oakbrook Elementary School Garden Build

Oakbrook Elementary School Garden Build

For the fifth year in a row, KidsGardening partnered with PT Holdings, a company based in Addison, IL, to build a school garden in the suburbs of Chicago as part of their Giving Back Initiative. One month ago, members of the KidsGardening team headed out to Oakbrook...
Emma Biggs: Working the Room with Worms

Emma Biggs: Working the Room with Worms

Working the Room with Worms There was a look of surprise on the faces in the audience when I dumped out a tub of worms into my hands and started walking around the room, with my hands out to show everyone. “Do you want to touch it, or hold it?” I asked, holding the...
Cooking with Students

Cooking with Students

As many of you know, I spend half my week with the Burlington School District working with students on an assortment of food-based projects. And during the long Vermont winter, much of my time is dedicated to cooking classes and taste tests. Each month I pick a new...
How a Science Experiment Grew a Garden Movement

How a Science Experiment Grew a Garden Movement

My third-graders’ classroom science experiment grew into a school garden! That’s the short version of the story of how I became a garden educator, and why I have been a regular donor to KidsGardening for over 14 years. My third-grade class and I transplanted our pole...