Tips & Tricks
Need some additional guidance while expanding your green thumb? No worries, Seed St. Louis has a library of educational resources to support your gardening adventures. Explore our variety of Tips & Tricks below!
Gardening as an Outdoor Education Option
Gardening as an outdoor education option provides students with a purpose for their learning. Early spring, students at Mallinckrodt and Shaw VPA broadcasted lettuce seeds in their garden bed and called it a salad bowl. Well, it is looking beautiful and growing wonderfully. Students learned to harvest the lettuce and with the […]
Read MoreMy Week in a Nutshell
Gateway Greening supports many school gardens and as a youth educator I am fortunate enough to be able to work with several different schools. I wanted to share with you all my week in a nutshell. -Punita Patel, […]
Read MoreGATEWAY GREENING AWARDED $205,000 GRANT BY MONSANTO FUND
Grant will be used to educate and empower the youth of St. Louis through exposure to gardening and healthy eating. St. Louis (April 12th, 2016) – Gateway Greening has been educating and empowering individuals to strengthen their communities through gardening and urban agriculture in the St. Louis community for more than 30 years. As […]
Read MoreReaching for the Sky
So you planted peas in your school garden, and they’re coming up! Now what? It’s time to put a trellis in place so they can climb to their full potential. This can be a great way to facilitate some small-group creative problem solving in the garden. Trellises can be made out of just about anything. […]
Read MoreMs. Vaughn’s Garden Story
Angela Vaughn is a Second Grade Teacher at Shaw VPA Elementary. She works with her Second Graders in the garden. The following is an interview with Angela Vaughn and Gateway Greening’s Youth Educator, Punita Patel. How did you get started with gardening at school? About three years ago, I began working with an architecture program […]
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