School gardens

For a $5,000 per school budget, here are the top outdoor classroom features districts should prioritize.

What do you do with a low-income school, a few donated garden boxes, and no funding for plants or supplies? To this question, teachers Debbie Rutledge-Lockyear and Janet White’s response was confident. You make it work. When they received the garden boxes, the teachers began dreaming of creating a community garden where they could give their […]

Learn how to plan with your children in mind when deciding on a garden design.

Spending time in the garden can awaken the senses of touch, smell, and taste, and attune a child to the subtler sights and sounds of nature.

Want to get your children’s creative juices flowing and spend time with them? Check this post for DIY garden ideas for kids and create unforgettable memories.

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The most creative landscape designers think beyond flowers, shrubs and other decorative plants to create outdoor spaces that are functional, unique, and in tune with nature's glorious harmonies. Here, we celebrate five of our favorites—and press them for intel that will help you take your own outdoor spaces to radical new places.

How to start a garden at your school and resources to incorporate it into your classroom curriculum.

At Hand Made Places, we’ve created a free guide to designing sensory gardens for school playgrounds for unusual and inclusive school gardening club ideas.