National Garden Club School Garden Project

The National Garden Club, Inc., Project for School Gardens emphasizes the theme "Nurture the Earth: Plant Natives, Plant Organically." This project will target elementary grade schools. Students, with the guidance of the teacher and sponsoring garden clubs, will be encouraged to create diverse native gardens. The school classroom will be the garden laboratory; the students and teachers will be engaged in the education of the native plants, the use of organic methods of both floral and vegetable gardening and the global impact of native plants in our environment throughout the United States and South America.

The creation of the school garden project has no boundaries; it can be small/large, portable/stationary, but must incorporate the education and reason of sustainability of our native plants.

Project Requirements

1. An NGC member club must sponsor the School Garden Project.
2. The School Garden Projects based in an elementary classroom or on school grounds must:
   1. Focus and study the importance of native plants, in the appropriate zone
   2. Create a garden
   3. Incorporate some education of native plants
3. The School Garden Project must be a new project or a new phase of an existing school or classroom garden.

Download the School Garden Project Application Form

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