Gardens for Life

How do plants grow?
Where does our food come from?
Do we eat the same things as other people in the world? What do people think about food around the world?
How are we all linked together globally?
What does sustainable development mean?

With Gardens for Life, children are getting answers to these and other questions, exploring "global citizenship” in a practical way.

Gardens for Life at the Eden Project supports schools and communities worldwide to garden and grow crops, to use gardens for teaching and learning, connecting with local food and development issues, and as a common global language.

We are creating a global school-based community of young people and teachers which understands the major issues about food which we all face today – adequate and balanced diets, health and food security.

Gardening also promotes outdoor learning and healthy lifestyles, while providing a way into issues of climate change and water management, sustainable development, cultures and indigenous knowledge.

Over 20,000 children and young people, 400 teachers, with many families and communities (we estimate about 50,000 people in total) in four continents have participated in garden-based teaching and learning and community action and have come to generate new ways of learning about, and living in, an uncertain modern world.

We are now opening up to other interested schools in the UK and elsewhere. We are also set to bring in schools in The Gambia, new areas of Maharashtra in India and the more arid areas of Kenya. Our belief is that children around the globe have a lot to learn from each other. Gardens for Life is about collaboration and celebrating difference while emphasizing what we all have in common.

For more information, e-mail: tpotterton@edenproject.com
Telephone: +44 (0)1726 818 824