ABSTRACT
This book has been an invitation to educators to join us in the work of bringing life to schools. Growing gardens is one joyous method that brings delicious dividends. While the examples sprinkled throughout the text speak for themselves and the practitioner narratives in Chapter 11 provide a rich array of opportunities, in this final chapter, we present lessons learned based on our interactions with students, teachers, principals, and others in school districts across the country followed by a reiteration of the role of learning gardens as academic venues. We end the book with a final discussion of living soil as the theoretical foundation of learning gardens and sustainability education guided by an ecological paradigm illustrated by seven principles that link pedagogy with pedology.
