School Gardens and Sustainable Food Education
About this course
A school garden is one of the most powerful learning spaces a school can have. Students who sow seeds, care for plants and harvest what they have grown learn about nature, seasons, responsibility and teamwork, and often discover a new curiosity about where food comes from and how it reaches their plate. This school garden course shows you how to create and run a garden at school, how to use it to teach sustainable food habits and how to reduce food waste, with families and the local community as partners. It is open to all school staff, from those who teach to canteen, kitchen and support staff, and works from pre-primary to secondary education.
Over five days, you will learn how to plan a school garden, even with little space or a small budget, using raised beds, containers and vertical gardens. You will practise the basics of gardening, including soil, composting, sowing, planting, watering and organising care throughout the year. You will discover how to use the garden as an outdoor classroom for every subject and how to adapt activities to different ages. You will also explore sustainable food education: seasonal and local food, where food comes from, simple tasting and cooking activities, and practical ways to measure and reduce food waste in classrooms and canteens. Finally, you will learn how to involve families and the local community through planting days, harvest events and shared projects.
By the end of the week, you will have designed a school garden or sustainable food project for your school and created a plan to put it into practice with your colleagues and students.
COURSE OVERVIEW
- Integrate the school garden and sustainable food education into school life.
- Evaluate the needs and resources of their school and adapt projects to them.
- Encourage students to develop responsibility, care for nature and sustainable food habits.
- Work with colleagues, canteen staff, families and the community on shared projects.
- Plan a school garden adapted to the space, budget and climate of their school.
- Apply basic gardening techniques, such as composting, sowing, planting and watering, with students.
- Use the garden as a learning space for different subjects and ages.
- Measure and reduce food waste in classrooms and canteens with practical actions.
- Design garden and food activities that involve families and the community.
- Understand the educational benefits of school gardens and sustainable food education.
- Identify the basic needs of a school garden, including space, soil, water, seasons and care throughout the year.
- Recognise the key ideas of sustainable food, such as seasonal and local products, and the impact of food waste.
- Explain how families and the local community can support garden and food projects.
NEXT COURSES
Our Pricing
100% funded by the Erasmus+
Services included
- Pre-arrival information.
- Tuition & training materials.
- Admin & organizational costs.
- Documentation support.
- Coffee break.
*Please check our Terms & Conditions for details of the items included in the Coffee Corner.
services
- Accommodation (hotels & self-catering apartments).
- Half-day and one-day trips.
- Cultural activities.
- Airport transfer.
- Local transport.
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