Founded in 1971, the Washington Youth Garden at the U.S. National Arboretum provides a unique, year-round environmental science and food education program for D.C. youth and their families. Using the garden and Arboretum as a living classroom, the program teaches participants to explore their relationships with food and the natural world. Learn more...
Our Growing Food...Growing Together program begins May 2, 2009. This fifteen week program takes place in the Washington Youth Garden every Saturday morning. Families will come together to tend communal vegetable and herb plots, gain gardening skills and knowledge, and learn how to use and celebrate healthy food through cooking demonstrations.
In 2009, we not only brought eight weeks of environmental science and nutrition lessons to the third and fourth grade classrooms in our participating schools, but we added a new element to our Garden Science program: a focus on bringing gardening to the schools!
One lovely aspect of the Master Gardener program at UDC's Cooperative
Extension is the requirement to give back to the community by
volunteering new-found gardening expertise to local gardens. More...