School Gardens as Commons: Fostering Relational Values for Biodiversity Through Participatory Environmental Education

We can find school gardens in many kindergartens and schools, but there is rarely an opportunity to observe long-term, using scientific methods, what effect they have on children, teachers, and the entire school community. Does time spent gardening change young people’s relationship with nature? Can school gardens play a prominent role in the educational system?

PLANET4B’s partner, ESSRG, examined, as part of a Hungarian case study, what changes the establishment and maintenance of the school garden brought both within the institution and beyond.

Read the case study analysis to learn about results and conclusions.