The Know – Graham Ambrose
“Clayton Early Learning, an early childhood care and education center in northeast Denver’s Clayton neighborhood, uses community gardens to get children excited about eating healthy food. Each weekday, teachers lead a group of tots at Educare Denver, a preschool at Clayton Early Learning, outside to work in 40 6-by-3-foot raised garden beds, watering plants, picking ripe fruits and vegetables and learning to recognize the names, scents, tastes and textures of the crops. What begins as a vocabulary lesson in class (“What’s a zucchini?”) slowly gives way to more complex lessons on horticulture, botany and how to care for living things.” (more)