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School gardens help students learn science and connect with agriculture – but making them happen isn’t easy

  • Written by Shelley Mitchell, Senior Extension Specialist in Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Oklahoma State University
imageThese kids are doing a lot more than just playing in the dirt.SolStock/E+ via Getty Images

I used to teach high school science in Oklahoma, and one day I brought in a stalk from a cotton plant with bolls of cotton still attached. Students asked me why I glued cotton balls to a stick.

My students and I lived in a rural town surrounded by pastures of...

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