Gardening Throughout
the Curriculum
Through gardening the children learn to see the human being having a true relationship with the earth. In our gardening curriculum the students learn the importance of working in harmony with nature and their environment.

The school garden is a vast world into which the children enter and which is given its order by the gardening teacher. In the art of the gardener it is the human being who gives every plant “its place” and who is dependent at the same time on all the enlivening forces of nature.

The pupils are made familiar with the school garden at first through simple tasks:: “Our flower bed, our compost heap…” No act is without its effect in the garden, but also no omission is without its consequence. In the sequence of seed-sprouting-growth-cultivation-harvest there are causes and effects for the children to experience and to understand. Proper handling of tools is practiced from the very beginning. A gardening book is begun and kept as a diary throughout the gardening year. There is a lightness in all the activity, almost like a game whose rules are followed with great earnestness. Unlike other activities, it is not only the fingers that are active, but rather all the limbs.