Edible gardens in early childhood centres and homes provide a valuable resource for teaching many aspects of the early childhood curriculum while also creating and sustaining a regular growth and supply of fruits and vegetables.
One of the joys of encouraging children into gardening is the pleasure of seeing, tasting and sharing the results of the effort. Dispositions such as perseverance and curiosity are nurtured through the experience of growing and tending to plants.
Gardening provides a real, as opposed to an artificial, context for the learning of natural science, maths, and language.
On this page we present information and guidance on: purposes of an edible garden, what size and structure works well, produce use, and which plants are most suitable to grown in ECE for speed, fun, and for children to eat.
Motivations and reasons for an edible garden include
