The brand is headquartered in Stamford, CT. This Old House is an American home improvement media brand with television shows, a magazine and a website,. Look out for Lane Elementary’s episode at the start of the next season, beginning in October.Main article: List of This Old House episodes “I was promised a tomato, and I’m going back for it.”Īsk This Old House airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. “One of the little girls that was planting with me, she looked at her friend while we were planting tomatoes and she just said, ‘This was so worth the wait.'”Īnother thing worth the wait? Those tomatoes. “They took ownership in it, and I think by having them plant their own seedlings, they’ll want to take care of it and nurture it along,” says designer Newada. “You can see it sprout and plant it and watch it grow, put it in the garden and it grows, it flowers, it produces fruit.”įrom the looks of it, that’s a lesson the kids are excited about learning. When you do a vegetable garden, it changes every day,” he says.
“If you paint a wall, it looks the same every day.
The earlier they can learn that appreciation and the more they can learn how to grow that themselves, that’s an important lesson that they’ll carry with them.”ĭesigner Cook says the garden is a perfect choice for students, because it gets them outside and shows them the value of working on a project over time. “But there’s a lot of work that goes into that 99 cent apple you’re getting at the store. “You ask where an apple comes from and they say, ‘Oh, it’s from the grocery store,'” Racela says. Plus, he says, the garden’s lessons go way beyond science. Racela says he hopes the episode will encourage other educators to follow in Lane’s footsteps, teaching concepts like plant life cycle and photosynthesis using actual plants, not textbooks. The crew focused on making the garden more accessible and easy to use, as well as planting seedlings grown by the students and-by popular request-building an arbor for growing grapes. to 6:30 p.m., battling rocky soil and tough digging conditions, to make the outdoor classroom a thriving garden. With help from an excited crew of third through fifth graders, the team worked from 7:30 a.m.
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