What is a Learning Garden?

Lettuce Learn Gardens:

A learning garden serves as an outdoor classroom for kids to learn about the interconnected world around them in a hands-on, experiential way.  Farms and gardens offer children (and adults too!) valuable lessons about nature, nutrition, ecology, responsibility, teamwork, delayed-gratification, stewardship, friendship, sharing, and much more.

Learning landscapes are a place where experiential learning blossoms and place-based education takes root.  What is experiential education rooted in place?  Here is a sampling:

•  When a child learns from doing rather than from a page. 
  
• When a student begins noticing the cycle of the sun and moon, the texture of the soil, the food-culture of their community, the story behind an heirloom seed. 
  
• Planting a seed and watching it grow.
  
• Building a worm bin and watching their food scraps decompose into compost.
• Counting the days on a calendar until their seeds sprout.

Lettuce Learn provides Garden Coordinators to the following schools: 

• ASU Child Development Center
• Bethel School Garden
• Hardin Park 6th Grade Science Garden
• Mountain Pathways
• Parkway  School Garden
• Valle Crucis School Gardens
• ​Cove Creek Garden

We also provide indirect support to the following learning gardens:

• Green Valley Garden
• Hospitality House Gardens
• Mabel School Gardens
• Two Rivers Community School Garden