Growing People Newsletter - Fall 2006

Volume 12 Fall 2006 GrowingPeopleNews—GrowingPeopleNews G a r d e n e r s i n C o m m u n i t y D e v e l o p m e n t Project Report: Gardening Education The heart of Gardeners in Community Development’s program is gardening education. Our gardens are... More

Volume 12 Fall 2006 GrowingPeopleNews—GrowingPeopleNews G a r d e n e r s i n C o m m u n i t y D e v e l o p m e n t Project Report: Gardening Education The heart of Gardeners in Community Development’s program is gardening education. Our gardens are classrooms for adults and children. While indoor workshops are held when needed, most of our training occurs “hands-on” out in real gardens where learning comes through gardening activities, observing nature, and having more experienced gardeners share what they know. This in-garden training brings skills that go well beyond classroom learning. Being able to efficiently shape a garden bed, spread mulch, transplant seedlings, or harvest mustard greens, involves motor skills and hand-eye coordination, and learning to use tools and your body that comes only from physically doing these things yourself. Experienced gardeners may read books, but also read nature. It is about reading the weather, moisture and smell of earth and compost, fe Less