discussion of the history of school garden movements
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Part 5: Practical Matters of Teaching Gardening
Gardening in the School Curriculum The manner in which gardening fit into the public school curriculum was hotly debated from the advent of school gardens in America. Was gardening scientific training or connecting to nature? Practical training in economy or beautification? For numerous rural schools in western and Midwestern states, gardening was the… Continue reading Part 5: Practical Matters of Teaching Gardening
Part 4: The School Garden Movement Blossoms
Early Model in New York City In 1902, Frances (Fannie) Griscom Parsons, with support from the local parks and school departments, founded the DeWitt Clinton Farm School at the corner of Eleventh Avenue and Fifty-Third Street (in the “Hell’s Kitchen” neighborhood on Manhattan in New York City). The plot, situated on a former dumping… Continue reading Part 4: The School Garden Movement Blossoms
Part 3: Beginnings of the School Garden Movement
Photo Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PSM_V52_D472_Children_working_in_the_george_putnam_school_garden.jpg It was the prevalence of successful school gardening and agricultural programs in Europe and Canada that encouraged the development of school gardens in America. Beginning with the Putnam School in Boston around 1890, school gardens across the country played an important role in the education and social development of countless American youth well… Continue reading Part 3: Beginnings of the School Garden Movement
History of Community Garden Movement in America – Part 2: Pingree’s Potato Patches, Detroit
History of Community Garden Movement in America - Part 2: Pingree’s Potato Patches, Detroit Community gardens come in all stripes. We can reasonably assume that the gardens grown by Native Americans for thousands of years on this continent constituted the first form of community gardens on our continent (see Part 1, Hohokam Irrigation Canals). Likewise,… Continue reading History of Community Garden Movement in America – Part 2: Pingree’s Potato Patches, Detroit
Community Gardeners of Maricopa County 