Garden Curriculum with Whitney Cohen

The popularity of Learning Gardens has exploded in schools across the United States because parents and educators alike recognize the positive impact of using nature based learning to teach valuable life skills. Today we interview Whitney Cohen ! Whitney is a teacher, trainer, and author committed to place based education. She is passionate about creating strategies to bridge environmental education and public schools. An expert in school garden curriculum as the Education Director for Life Lab and lecturer for UC Santa Cruz , Whitney travels the US collaborating with other educators to implement learning gardens in their school. In this interview Whitney shares the rich history of Life Lab which has evolved into a national leader in the garden-based learning garden movement. Life Lab has stellar activity guides for teachers and parents interested in gardening with kids. Their Garden Classroom hosts educators from across the country, and abroad, where they observe and learn from the years of experience accumulated at Life Lab. Whitney's books include The Growing Classroom: Garden-Based Science and Nutrition Activity Guide , The Book of Gardening Projects for Kids , Kids' Garden: 40 Fun Indoor and Outdoor Activities and Games , and Sowing the Seeds of Wonder: Discovering the Garden in Early Childhood Education . We hope that you enjoy this interview and welcome your feedback!

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Garden Curriculum with Whitney Cohen is an episode from Garden Dine Love | Farm to Fork | Farm to Table.

This episode is 49:04 long.

This episode was published on Oct 27, 2016.

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