I couldn’t care less about the school garden. That’s what I would have told you when Brian and I first toured Mallinckrodt, in the fall of 2011, looking for a school for our son, Milo. You’ve maybe seen that Facebook meme, “I’m outdoorsy in the sense that I like drinking wine on patios”? That’s me. […]

(ST. LOUIS, MO., August 26, 2015)… A unique partnership between St. Louis designers, police officers and gardeners from Gateway Greening is helping to provide free books to those who may not have access to a library, as part of the international “Little Free Library” movement. Created in Wisconsin in 2009, the Little Free Library initiative […]

PhotoVoice: Telling the Story of Camp with the Click of a Shutter Can one picture really speak a thousand words? At Gateway Greening’s Garden Media Camp, students set out to find the answer. Campers learned that an important part of photojournalism is to show viewers a new perspective on the world. They took this lesson […]

As our campers honed their photography skills, working individually and in teams to tell the story of camp through visual media, the time came to expand their horizons even further. Campers began to explore a new way to tell a story: creating a camp podcast. This was a new experience for our campers, and they […]

Gateway Greening is now Seed St. Louis! As we work to complete our new website www.seedstl.org, please visit our original site for all resources and information. Explore Our Gardens

Gateway Greening is now Seed St. Louis! As we work to complete our new website www.seedstl.org, please visit our original site for all resources and information. Explore Our Gardens

Gateway Greening is now Seed St. Louis! As we work to complete our new website www.seedstl.org, please visit our original site for all resources and information. Explore Our Gardens

Gateway Greening is now Seed St. Louis! As we work to complete our new website www.seedstl.org, please visit our original site for all resources and information. Explore Our Gardens

Education in the Garden I spent Thursday afternoon with 7th graders who absolutely cannot wait another moment to eat corn. I was helping them plan our garden using math. “If a corn plant takes up two square feet,” I said, “and one of your garden beds is eighty square feet, how many corn plants can […]

Education in the Garden It has been an eventful week in our school gardens! The nice weather means we’ve been outside at last, feeling the sunshine on our faces and cleaning up our gardens for spring. Hauling mulch, picking up trash, hanging bird feeders—something about the flurry of activity has turned my students into unstoppable […]