Planting Progress is a social and educational networking site created to provide resources to educators and people interested in bringing together school gardens, local farms, and lunch programs.
The following are just a few positive impacts we believe will happen if people start to work hand in hand.
- School Gardens and Educational Impact. Children will learn where their food originates, be exposed to tangible nutritional education and ultimately perform better in school if they incorporate a plant based diet into their lifestyle.
- School Gardens and Health Impact. By teaching children the benefits of a plant based diet the rates of obesity, attention disorders, and depression can be lowered.
- School Gardens and Environmental Impact. Raising children to become environmental stewards will help transition this country into the sustainable leader it is striving to become. Children will have more of an understanding of the earth, a stronger connectivity to nature and a greater desire to preserve it. One way this can be done is throughSquare Foot Gardening.
Our vision is to encourage all schools to have seasonal school gardens and school garden curriculum to provide garden-based learning experiences for students. We want to expose children to fresh seasonal vegetables, and encourage them to make better nutritional decisions improving overall health and education.
Although we believe in setting a foundation through the basic understanding of school gardening, we understand that is only a starting point. It is imperative to integrate school garden programs with local farms and provide better nutritional food for students. By encouraging interaction between local farmers and schools, children can understand more of where their food comes from while farmers reduce their carbon footprint by delivering locally.
We also believe it is essential to reform the nutritional standards by which school meals are served. Children will preform better in school if they are served the right kinds of nutritional food in a way that appeals to them. We want to encourage programs that are working on school meal reform throughout the country to use eachother, along with local farms and school gardens to form the ideal vision of nutrition and education.
