School Garden Kicks Off with Celebrity

Children
Written By Steven Biggs

Taking Math to the Garden

Sonya Harris’ from The Bullock Garden Project on bringing the garden to the classroom.

It 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 star

  • Bringing the classroom to the garden — and the garden to the classroom

  • Creating The Bullock Garden Project to help other educators start gardens

  • Funding the non-profit project with a for-profit seed company, Garden Teachers Yard

  • Resources for educators who want to incorporate gardening into the curriculum

  • Joining the board at KidsGardening.org

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