Gardening & Food (Grades 3–5)

Growing your own food is one of the most satisfying things a child can learn to do — and there's real math and science in every row. Master Gardener Thistle and Sprout the apprentice ranger guide your grower from bare soil all the way to a full harvest feast. Over 10 missions across two weeks, your Harvest Keeper studies the parts of a seed, plans and measures a garden bed, learns how photosynthesis feeds a plant, reads the planting calendar, follows the plant life cycle, spaces a real crop, builds a compost pile, and speaks up for pollinators. Every mission pairs a growing skill with real academics: fractions, decimals and percentages, area and perimeter, multi-step word problems, and descriptive and persuasive writing. Printable and low-prep, with a complete answer key and a notebooking/research page woven through. What's Inside: - 10 story-based garden missions across 2 weeks - Seed anatomy, photosynthesis, the plant life cycle, composting, and pollination - Real garden math — area and perimeter, spacing, yields, and fractions — plus descriptive and persuasive writing - A full answer key and a Guardian of the Greenhollow Garden certificate Part of the Gardening & Food series. ESA-eligible — pay with your ESA where your program covers curriculum.