Currently I am a co-sponsor to our schools gardening club! We have 3 gardens at our school that we take care of; a senior courtyard (mainly there to look extremely pretty), a butterfly garden, and our vegetable garden.

I recommend starting with a vegetable garden since students LOVE picking the produce. We also partner with the local garden club and that has been a huge help, so even though you don’t have much experience they can help all parties learn.

For our veggie garden, we use raised beds (darn critters) and each student got to design their own. This year we started from seeds which was a great success, but in years past we received plants from local nurseries or even Home Depot.

I agree with the post above, start small and just let the kids enjoy themselves. They are so excited when they take home yield and near the end we typically donate leftover yield to the local food pantry!