Investigating the Value and Impact of Child-Led Garden Programming

Abstract

The Children’s Garden Project Canada (TCGPC) is a community initiative born out of a passion for gardening and the need for more safe, natural, local outdoor play and leisure activity spaces for kids. It is in its second year of operation and sought the assistance of the McMaster Research Shop to collect data about its programming to make improvements internally and communicate the program’s value to stakeholders externally. This report presents the findings from previous academic literature about child-led learning and garden programming and data from pre- and post-workshop surveys with children participants of The Children’s Garden’s composting workshops, as well as interviews with the teachers of those children.