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Granny's Garden School

Educational organizations based in OhioGardens in OhioLoveland, Ohio

Loveland Learning Garden is a non-profit community school garden program located in the Loveland City School District in Loveland, Ohio. As "the largest and most comprehensive school gardening program in the Midwest," Loveland Learning Garden's collaborates with the Loveland City School District to offer hands-on learning experiences for students that are directly connected to state curriculum standards. Granny's Garden School has begun the Schoolyard Nature Network to aid those who wish to develop their own school garden programs. Hailed as a "tremendous community asset," Granny's Garden provides food for the school cafeteria as well as to the rest of the community. Granny's Garden School is featured prominently in Herbert W. Broda's book Moving the Classroom Outdoors: Schoolyard-Enhanced Learning in Action. Broda lauds the school as, "a truly amazing enterprise It has also been presented in the American magazine Birds and Blooms.

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Granny's Garden School
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