Monday, April 17, 2017

A bit of background on the UBC Orchard Garden

This teaching and learning garden is a student-led joint project of the UBC Faculty of Education,
Faculty of Land and Food Systems and School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. It was originally established in 2005, and has been the site of classes, workshops, practica, research projects,  summer institutes, conference symposia and community engagement activities for over 500 people each year since 2010.

You can connect to the UBC Orchard Garden blog here, and follow our FaceBook page, Twitter account and Instagram account if you'd like to keep up with our doings! A 2017 fact sheet on the Orchard Garden is available here.

The Orchard Garden's educational mandate is to 'help teachers learn about teaching and learning across the curriculum with the garden as co-teacher'. We will soon be coming out with a website and book with our findings on ways of teaching every K-12 school subject, from history to math to music, poetry, astronomy, art, biology, food and nutrition, fibre arts and much more, in & with a learning garden.

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