National Garden Month
Community Blooms School Garden

April is National Garden Month -- a perfect month to plant a school garden.
A Community Blooms School Garden can be started inside or outside. Your club can start small. A garden might be grown to beautify your school grounds, to grow organic food for your school cafeteria or in honor or in memory of a classmate or teacher.

There are many benefits to starting a garden, especially outdoors:

• Learning about the environment
• Learning about and growing nutritious food
• Being outside in the fresh air and sun
• Being physically active
• Working together to grow healthy food or beautiful flowers

The Good Garden.org The Good Garden enrichment program introduces kids to the concept of food security and what they can do about the global food crisis. Through stories, interactive games and integrated curriculum, The Good Garden engages kids to help families everywhere go from hunger to having enough.

Read our Author Interview with Katie Smith Milway, author of The Good Garden - How One Family Went From Hunger to Having Enough.

The Green Education Foundation mobilizes kids, grades K-12, to participate in eco-challenges that empower their school communities to achieve measurable and sustainable goals in waste reduction and energy conservation. You can register to access lesson plans and activities.