Quote

Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum.

Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.

When I was still at school, I'd help Dad at the concrete yard he had prior to the garden centre. I was doing things there, like driving the tractors and forklifts, that most kids my age couldn't.

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.

I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens.

Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure.

I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.