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Right up my alley!I teach botany/environmental scinece (and also forensics and biology…) and have a greenhouse attached to my room. The biggest problem I’ve encountered is that the school year and the growing season are direct opposites, since the school calendar was originally developed for farming societies.My students all brought home a bunch of their own plant starts, and they got to grow whatever they wanted throughout the year in the greenhouse. I do also have a few plans in the works:-the food/nutrition teacher and I want to do a joint project where we grow ingredients (say for salsa) and the food kids prepare meals. I think it would be awesome!-I want to take over the courtyard at school and plant a bunch of bulbs, corms, tubers, etc. in the fall when we talk about plant structure, and then all the kids will be able to see them come up in the spring.I developed this program over the past 4 years, but I must say that this involves a ton of work for the teachers, which I’m sure is part of why many schools are resistant. I spends so much time at the garden center, lugging soil up to the 3rd floor where my classroom and greenhouse are located, and then trying to clean out the place each year. We accept donations of people’s plastic pots and half-used seed packs, so we try to be environmentally friendly that way. My big concern is that my botany program has grown from 9 kids my first year to about 75 next year, and space in the greenhouse becomes an issue. I’m looking into getting many more hanging pots and stackable shelving to make it work.It is so rewarding! So many of my students have reconnected with their parents and grandparents by helping them in the garden. They brag about how many peas they got, how big their tomato plants are. Some kids from last year even came in to show me pictures of how the plants did over the summer. I love this class!We also take a trip to my family’s farm in the fall, have speakers come in to address the local foods movement (farmers, chefs, scientists, etc.).Sorry my comment was so long 🙂