Greensboro
Montessori School Permaculture Gardens
 The
Gardening Program at Greensboro Montessori School nurtures each
child’s appreciation and understanding of the natural world
and builds ecologically responsible citizens by involving them in
the seasonal cycles of planting, harvesting, and sharing the food
grown in an organic, Permaculture garden.
Read the entire mission statement:
GMS
Permaculture Mission Statement
4/6/06
Ten Activities for Home Gardeners
by Dr. Charlie Headington
 Enjoyable,
sustainable, permaculture is not just for the classroom. It is fun
and anyone can do it! With a little work, and these simple tips,
you too can can have a beautiful, fully organic garden to enjoy.
Read more here.
Teaching Permaculture in a School Garden
by Dr. Charlie Headington
 At Greensboro Montessori
School over 200 kids garden each week. That's
a lot of kids and a lot of gardening!
A Montessori school is a good place to garden. Maria
Montessori believed each child needed intimacy
with the natural world. Otherwise, she reasoned, how would the senses
or the soul or the mind grow? But wonder in itself was not enough;
it had to be nurtured by competent understanding of how natural
systems work. That's a proper setting for Permaculture, wouldn't
you agree?
Read the entire article:
Teaching Permaculture
Teaching about the Soil in the GMS Garden
by Walter Moore
 The
key to a bountiful garden, from tender greens to ruby red strawberries,
starts from the ground up. The soil is the essential element of
the overall landscape, along with water and sunshine. At Greensboro
Montessori School (GMS), we teach the students
the fundamentals of the soil and those creatures that call it home
(where would we be without the earthworm?).
Read the entire article:
Walter Moore On Soil
The Garden Dances Through The Children
By Megan McGee Ingram
 Teaching
permaculture through dance is easy. The experience of teaching evolved
throughout the year as I came to know the students and the garden.
At times, we would reflect on our experiences in a “sharing
circle,” where the students would pantomime, recreating, reflecting,
and remembering the motions that they went through as they tended
to the garden, including weeding, watering and tasting dances.
Read the entire article:
Garden Dancing
Montessori Market
 The
5th Annual Montessori Market was held at 10:00am on Wednesday morning,
July 28th. The Montessori camp students sold produce collected from the school gardens as
well as jams, pesto, breads, flowers and more, made from the garden
offerings. They also sold art and crafts that they made in camp.
 Each
year the students use the profits from the Market to purchase school
supplies for children who don't have the resources to get the supplies
they need. Last summer (2004 & 2005), after going to the store
to purchase the supplies, the students delivered the supplies to
the children at a year long school program. Meeting the children
there was an extra treat for our students.
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