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 The mission of the New Jersey Agricultural Society’s Learning Through Gardening program is to give New Jersey preschools and elementary schools materials to build and maintain fruit and/or vegetable gardens and to provide teachers with the support needed to use the garden as an outdoor classroom.  A school garden gives children the opportunity to learn where their food comes from, how it grows, and that a healthy diet begins with fruits and vegetables. 

Research shows that school gardening can improve students’ test scores and school behavior. Further, gardens can promote effective experiential learning in many subjects, particularly the areas of science, environmental, and food education. School-based gardens may also spur the interest in young children to learn about and visit New Jersey’s farms, and perhaps to consider pursuing a career 
path related to agriculture or to become our next generation of new/beginning farmers. These are goals that the Growing Together affiliation seeks to support and achieve. 

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Goal:

To provide New Jersey elementary schools with educational and agricultural resources to assist in creating school gardens to be used as learning laboratories!
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Vision: 

For children across New Jersey 
  • to make informed choices about their food,
  • to care for their environment, 
  • to be excited about learning in the garden. 
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Objectives:

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To teach children where their food comes from and give them the experience of growing their own food.

​To encourage children to include more fruits and vegetables in their diets by allowing them to eat the fruits and vegetables they have grown at school.
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To provide an outdoor garden classroom where learning occurs across the curriculum.
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