Bringing the arts into the garden creates better K-12 students.

Education acquired in the garden can increase students' overall academic performance. Students expand their ways of thinking or habits of mind to include curiosity, flexibility, open-mindedness, informed skepticism, creativity, and critical thinking.

Hughes, L., DiClaudio, D., Savoca, L. Learning Through the Garden: Cooperative Extension Fact Sheet FS1211. Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. https://njaes.rutgers.edu/pubs/fs1211/

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