Tips & Tricks

ST. LOUIS (February 23rd, 2018)- Students in Gateway Greening’s Seed to STEM program keep growing thanks to a $205,000 grant from the Monsanto Fund for 2018-2019. Gateway Greening has a long history of assisting St. Louis schools to fund and support school gardens. To help teachers effectively use the garden as an outdoor classroom and […]

  How do you foster a sense of student ownership and investment in their school garden? By encouraging them to be a part of the decision making process. Last week, Ms. Davie’s and Ms. Hayes’s 4th grade classes at Gateway Elementary decided what to plant in their school garden based on planting dates, germination rates, […]

Gateway Greening celebrates innovative St. Louis projects with convergence of local and national urban agriculture leaders. ST. LOUIS, MO. (February 16, 2018) – Gateway Greening, a non-profit organization in St. Louis that educates and empowers people to strengthen their communities through gardening and urban agriculture, will host its annual Community Agriculture Conference on Sunday, February 25 […]

Interview with Lauren Hollis, a teacher at Clay Academy in St. Louis, MO., about how she personally became involved in the school’s garden.    How long have you been gardening personally? How long have you been gardening with students? Probably just 2 years. My parents have a pretty big garden. My mom just got started […]

As the weather gets colder, time in the garden gets shorter. However, indoor lessons can still have garden connections! Throughout December, the fourth-graders at Gateway Elementary observed and measured how different materials affected soil warmth. After discovering that cold frames effectively raised the soil temperature, they wanted to engineer their own solutions.   To become […]