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National Gardening Association: Kids Gardening WebsiteNational Gardening Association: Kids Gardening Website
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National Gardening Association: Kids Gardening

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This complete resource for parents, teachers, and students on gardening provides information about creating and maintaining a school garden. List your garden in the registry of school gardens. Includes information about garden projects and grants.

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Concepts

horticulture, gardening

Additional Tags

classroom garden, growing flowers, growing herbs, growing vegetables, kids gardening, school garden, school greenhouse, theme garden, plant

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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