Parent volunteers and teachers work with Hammer Montessori students in the school’s gardens on a weekly basis during the lunch recess. First through fifth graders participate. Activities include planting, harvesting, watering, weeding, maintaining the schools compost pile and learning about what is needed to support a health garden and a healthy diet.
Generously Supported By Renee’s Garden
Every year, Renee’s Garden donates seeds to a wide variety of organizations and educational programs worldwide that strive to improve social, economic and health conditions, and promote sustainable organic gardening. We also encourage retailers to donate unsold Renee’s Garden seeds to local non-profit organizations at the end of the season. We are pleased to share their successful outcomes
Maria Montessori on Gardening…
“The best means of invigorating the child is to immerse him in nature.” - Maria Montessori
“When the children put a seed into the ground… the children are inspired with a feeling for nature…” - Maria Montessori
“When the child has cultivated the iris or the pansy, the rose or the hyacinth, has placed in the soil a seed or a bulb and periodically watered it, or has planted a fruit-bearing shrub, and the blossomed flower and the ripened fruit offer themselves as a generous gift of nature, a rich reward for a small effort…” - Maria Montessori