Why You Should Turn Your Lawn Into a Food Garden

• This video explains why growing a food garden is a better alternative to maintaining a lawn. 
• Students learn how to grow a food garden and its advantages for the gardener and the planet. 

Positives

• This video contains engaging visuals.
• Accompanying text emphasizes important facts from the video.
• It shows how policies have increased the number of home food gardens.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be familiar with lawns, fertilizer, pesticides, and lawnmowers.
• There may be an ad before the video.
  

Differentiation

• Teachers could use this video to teach 6-8th graders about victory gardens.
• Teachers could use this video to highlight the importance of policies and their role in mitigating climate change.
• Teachers could use part 5:57-6:02 to describe how planting one’s own food helps to fight climate change.
• Teachers could use part 6:54-7:07 to encourage students to plant some food and herb crops.
• Click here for a lesson plan on food and carbon.

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