Fertile ground: Richly educational school gardens are cropping up all over

IN THE NEWS: Three pumpkins on the picnic bench inside Silver Gate’s 6-year-old school garden aren’t Halloween remnants. Grown in one of the garden’s 10 raised beds, they were part of a lesson on circumference for fourth-graders, explains the garden’s volunteer coordinator Loc Leute. Everything in this garden in a corner of the playground and a new one outside the school’s kindergarten area becomes lessons, including the worm bin donated by Solana Center. Read more from UT San Diego»