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The Princeton School Garden Cooperative is a group of individuals who believe in garden based education and in re-connecting students to the earth's bounty in the garden, the classroom and the cafeteria. Our goal is to create flourishing edible gardens at every Princeton Public School K-12 and to share ideas and lesson plans with anyone and everyone so they can grow edible teaching gardens at their schools, community centers and even their own homes.
Princeton now has outdoor garden classrooms in every public elementary school! The Cooperative has worked with committed teachers, principals, parent volunteers and students at each of these schools to design, plant, water, weed and nurture the gardens into being. We hope this guide will further the growth of these gardens into the classroom curriculum.
We have written a guide (pdf) that contains the steps for composting, planning and planting your edible garden as well as lesson plans and curriculum links for math, social studies, language arts, science, visual arts and health. The teachers at the Riverside Elementary School in Princeton, New Jersey have generously provided the majority of the material for this first installment. However, The Stony Brook Millstone Watershed also shared a number of creative exercises. As our gardens grow, we hope everyone including you will share their ideas, lesson
plans, photos and more. Please keep this guide in a three ring binder because there are more installments to come.
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