Program: Container Gardening 101

Description: Join KidsGardening Educators Noel Cibulka and Sarah Pounders to learn how to provide joyful and effective lessons and activities using container gardens. As long as you have some sun and access to water, gardening in containers lets you and your students grow vegetables, herbs, flowers, and even fruit trees. A container garden can be as simple as a few pots of herbs in a window box or as elaborate as an array of large outdoor tubs with plants that rotate seasonally.  We’ll share how you can most successfully engage kids in container gardening and how this approach can become a cost-effective, successful, fun way to grow, learn and play in the garden.

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Container Gardening 101 Presenters:

Noel Cibulka
Noel Cibulka (she/her/hers) started with KidsGardening in the summer of 2022. As Educational Content & Outreach Specialist, she helps develop KG’s annual garden-based content strategy, co-develops original educational materials, oversees the editorial calendar, and supports content marketing. Before joining KidsGardening, Noel spent many years working in informal education as a museum and environmental educator, developing and delivering programs for diverse, multi-generational audiences. For two years, she also ran a school garden program for TK through 5th-grade students.

Sarah Pounders
Sarah Pounders has been active in the field of youth gardening for over 30 years. Growing up surrounded by plants instilled a deep love of gardens and the desire to share that love with others. Over the years, she has worked at various botanical gardens, for Cooperative Extension, and since 2005 as an Education Specialist at KidsGardening, coordinating numerous children’s gardens, writing curricula and activities for youth of all ages, teaching formal and informal youth education programs, and conducting teacher training sessions on integrating gardens into the classroom.

Sponsor:

The GroMoreGood initiative makes garden grants, garden kits, educational curriculum, and garden training available to all Head Start programs with the goal of creating more edible gardens for young children and their families. The initiative also supports the creation of green space projects—land that is partly or completely covered with grass, trees, shrubs, or other vegetation—as an option for children and the community to learn.