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Granny’s Garden School is a non-profit community school garden program located in the Loveland City School District in Loveland, Ohio. As “the largest and most comprehensive school gardening program in the Midwest,” Granny’s Garden School collaborates with the Loveland City School District to offer hands-on learning experiences for students that are directly connected to state curriculum standards.〔(“Schoolyard Nature Network.” ‘’Our Ohio.’’ 2008 )〕 Granny’s Garden School has begun the Schoolyard Nature Network to aid others to who wish to develop their own school garden programs.〔Hacker, Wendy. “Granny’s Garden School featured” ‘’Your Hometown Enquirer’’ (Cincinnati). 3 September 2011. ()〕〔(Mooth, Bryn. “Growing Interest.” ‘’edible Ohio Valley’’ Spring 2011 )〕 Hailed as a “tremendous community asset,” 〔Lipski, Vicky. “Farm to Fork Alright.” ‘’Transition Voice’’. 28 January 2011. ()〕 Granny’s Garden provides food for the school cafeteria as well as to the rest of the community. Granny’s Garden School is featured prominently in Herbert W. Broda’s book ''Moving the Classroom Outdoors: Schoolyard-Enhanced Learning in Action''. Broda lauds the school as, “a truly amazing enterprise〔Hacker, Wendy. “Granny’s Garden School featured” ‘’Your Hometown Enquirer’’ (Cincinnati). 3 September 2011. ()〕 It has also been presented in the American magazine ''Birds and Blooms''. == History == Granny’s Garden School is the brainchild of Roberta “Granny” Paolo, who was inspired by the positive experiences she had working with her own grandchildren in her backyard garden. One fall day in 2001, while picking her grandchildren up from school, she noticed someone planting flowers in the front of the school. It was then that she realized that school could be the perfect place for children to interact with gardens. After meeting with school administrators and the grounds manager, Paolo presented her idea for the school garden to the Loveland School Board.〔Necco, Deidra. “Granny’s Garden Marks a Decade of Nature Education.” ‘’Soapbox Media Cincinnati’’ (Cincinnati). 1 May 2012. ()〕 The Loveland School Garden Program launched that spring. In addition to the adult volunteers, students contributed by spending some of their physical education hours in preparing beds and planting flowers. Over the course of the spring and summer, Paolo worked to create more garden activities and teachers would sign up to participate. By the fall of 2002 there were seventeen individual classroom gardens. Over the course of the next few years, Granny’s Garden School continued to expand and develop comprehensive lesson plans and train instructors for the students. Today there are over one hundred garden beds that serve over fifty classrooms at Loveland Elementary School.〔“It’s Easy Teaching Green” Birds and Blooms. October/November 2004.〕〔Hacker, Wendy. “Granny’s Garden School receives donation from Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt” ‘’Cincinnati Enquirer’’ (Cincinnati). 1 September 2012.〕〔“History” () Retrieved 2014-04-11〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Granny's Garden School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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