School Garden Kicks Off with Celebrity

Taking Math to the Garden

It started with a math lesson. A very boring math lesson.

Educator Sonya Harris was trying to get a concept to stick. And the thing that got it to stick was the garden.

A non-gardener, she saw how it could help kids take in ideas. But she wasn’t sure where to start once she got buy-in from the principal to make a garden. 

So she did it with a fun celebrity event. 

We talk about:

• Launching the school garden with a “yard-crashing” event featuring an HGTV star
• Bringing the classroom to the garden — and the garden to the classroom
• Creating The Bullock Garden Project to help other educators start gardens
• Funding the non-profit project with a for-profit seed company, Garden Teachers Yard
• Resources for educators who want to incorporate gardening into the curriculum