Benefits of Children Gardening

While there are many benefits for people of all ages in gardening, the Seedlings Garden Group has identified three key areas where the benefits are strongest for growing bodies and minds. They include nutrition and health, community and responsibility, and education in sustainability and the environment. These aspects all reflect what the students are learning in their school's Garden Club, organized by the Seedlings Garden Group.

​Nutrition and Health

• Weeding and watering a garden encourages physical activity and being outdoors.

• Planting seeds and watching them grow teaches children how food is grown and where it comes from

• Planned days for all students, teachers and educators to try raw foods grown in the garden

• Many kids have not tried many of the vegetables grown in our garden and can lead to healthy new eating habits

Community and Responsibility

• Working side by side allows kids, parents and teachers to develop a new appreciation - and respect - for each other that will strengthen their relationships in and out of the garden.

• Sharing home-grown produce with others as a community helps children practice responsible citizenship.

• Students will be able to see what can come from working alongside one another in a community effort.

Education in Sustainability and the Environment

• Rain or shine, count on the weather to offer lessons on the effects of sunshine, a gentle rain versus a thunderstorm, windstorm, hail and drought on our garden and the environment at large. When the weather forces us indoors, we provide indoor lessons on everything related to gardening.

• Our environment is affected by human pollution and Garden Club kids will come to understand the importance of organic gardening and the role agriculture plays in human impact on the earth. Students will be taught the value of protecting our environment.

• The Garden Club will  give children the knowledge of how to successfully develop their own sustainable gardens,  benefits that will last a lifetime.