Community Development
Gardens often serve as a focal point for community dialogue, capacity building, and partnerships
Gardens often organize individuals for action – for water delivery, cooperatives, and transportation
Food Security
Gardens can address hunger at the individual, family, and community levels through planning, growing, and sharing
Gardens can be the beginning point for teaching and developing food policy
Sustainable Development
Gardens are an appropriate arena to introduce children to the interconnections that link nature to economic systems and society
Vocational Education
Gardens represent a historic and contemporary model for developing vocational skills in agriculture, natural resource management, and science
School Grounds Greening
Gardens provides practical productive strategies to transform sterile school grounds into attractive and productive learning centers
Hands-on activities in outdoor classrooms make learning more interesting while demonstrating other benefits such as decreased absenteeism and discipline problems