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  • Tuesday, July 8 – Friday, July 11 – National Children & Youth Garden Symposium

    Cool down in New England next summer and learn with colleagues in the heart of the Connecticut River Valley!

    Save the Date for NCYGS 2025

    The American Horticultural Society is excited to share that the 33rd annual National Children & Youth Garden Symposium will be held in Hartford, Connecticut from Tuesday, July 8 to Friday, July 11, 2025. The symposium will focus on “Science & History in Youth Gardening” and will be headquartered at the Connecticut Science Center. Full details and registration will become available in January. Mark your calendars now.

    2025 NCYGS Call for Sessions

    The American Horticultural Society is now accepting session proposals for the 33rd annual National Children & Youth Garden Symposium, “Science and History in Youth Gardening,” in Hartford, CT from Tuesday, July 8 to Friday, July 11, 2025. We encourage youth garden educators from across the fields to apply! Please review the proposal guidance and submit your session proposals by Friday, January 3, 2025. All submissions will be notified of decisions in January 2025. For further information and to submit a proposal, visit NCYGS 2025.

  • Wednesday, July 13 – Friday, July 15 – AHS Centennial Year National Children & Youth Garden Symposium, Live and Online

    The American Horticultural Society is looking forward to an in-person conference where we can learn from each other in face-to-face interactive and hands-on ways, visit and tour gardens and greenspaces, and network in both the facilitated and unfacilitated ways that conferences provide.

    Mark your calendar for July 13-15, 2022 to join us for the 30th annual National Children & Youth Garden Symposium in Richmond, Virginia. The past two years of global health crisis have compelled many Americans to reevaluate what is truly important in their lives. In 2021, more adults than ever before reported taking part in some form of outdoor recreation, 20 million people became first-time gardeners, and National Parks were flooded with visitors upon reopening, all clear signs that for so many, nature is one of those things that we value most. Beyond the clean air and open spaces, the opportunity to grow our own healthy foods, and the awe-inspiring landscapes that give us respite from our daily routines that became so important during the pandemic, nature can help us solve other major challenges that society is facing today including a growing mental health crisis and climate change. Join us as our National Children & Youth Garden Symposium 2022 speakers explore the resilient and hopeful topic of nature as healer, teacher, and mentor. 

    Find out more about registration rates and travel and accommodations in Richmond. Educational sessions and speakers have been chosen – check out the fantastic array of topics! Check out the comprehensive symposium schedule and descriptions of field experience in and around Richmond. Keynotes by Lily Urmann with Rosanna Ayers and Carolyn Schuyler will be offered as stand-alone events available to a virtual audience. Meredith Henne Baker will welcome attendees to Richmond with a historical perspective on youth engagement by Virginia’s garden clubs.

    Register today In order to ensure a safe and healthy conference environment, all attendees must be vaccinated for COVID-19. More details will be available on safety procedures as the event gets closer, subject to change at any time based upon CDC and local health department recommendations.

  • Wednesday, July 7 – Friday, July 9 – National Children & Youth Garden Symposium, Online Live and Prerecorded and On Demand

    SAVE THE DATE! National Children & Youth Garden Symposium 2021 will take place as a virtual symposium with both live, interactive sessions (July 7-9) and prerecorded sessions for on-demand viewing. Symposium registrants will be able to access the entire content package. Young people today are more connected and aware than ever before and many have a sincere desire to combat social and environmental issues. Furthermore, they have ideas about solving these problems, but are rarely asked for their input. Through the NCYGS 2021 live general sessions, the speakers will give educators both the inspiration and the tools they need to discover and nurture the passion within a child and create the space and support for a child to pursue that passion.

    Speakers include Charles Orgbon III, who at age 11 developed Greening Forward, which mobilized thousands of students in the United States to take action on environmental issues. Megan Chen, age 17 is the Founder and Executive Director of The Urban Garden Initiative, an international 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that focuses on environmental sustainability and gardening education. Sheryll Durrant is an urban farmer, educator, and food justice advocate. She has been the Resident Garden Manager at Kelly Street Garden since 2016, and is also the Food and Nutrition Coordinator for New Roots Community Farm, managed by International Rescue Committee (IRC). Jack Muir Laws is a scientist, educator and author who will discuss Nature Journaling for Educators. Additional panelists will be announced. Sponsored by Ball, Terra Design Studios, Corona, Espoma Organic, and the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.

    Registration is now open.

  • Wednesday, July 11 – Saturday, July 14 – National Children & Youth Garden Symposium

    National Children & Youth Garden Symposium is the only national event of its kind where you can network with like-minded teachers, garden designers, community leaders, program coordinators, and others involved with connecting kids to the natural world. NCYGS 2018 attendees will have the opportunity to:
    Explore topics ranging from curriculum to program management to garden design and maintenance during four dynamic days of educational sessions, field trips, and expert keynote presentations. July 11 will feature optional pre-symposium trips, while July 12-14 will comprise the main body of the symposium. Experience Central New York’s breathtaking natural beauty and the world renowned facilities of Cornell University. Share ideas, success stories, and inspiration with like-minded colleagues from across the nation. Registration is open at http://ahsgardening.org/gardening-programs/youth-gardening/ncygs/2018-ncygs/overview

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  • Wednesday, July 12 – Saturday, July 15 – National Children & Youth Garden Symposium

    NCYGS is the only national event of its kind where you can network with like-minded teachers, garden designers, community leaders, program coordinators, and others involved with connecting kids to the natural world. This summer’s event will take place in the Greater Portland Oregon and Vancouver Washington area. NCYGS 2017 attendees will have the opportunity to:

    Explore topics ranging from curriculum to program management to garden design and maintenance during four dynamic days of educational sessions, field trips, and expert keynote presentations. July 12 will feature optional pre-symposium trips, while July 13-15 will comprise the main body of the symposium.
    Experience the vibrant gardening and environmental culture of the green Pacific Northwest. Share ideas, success stories, and inspiration with like-minded colleagues from across the nation. Have questions or need more information? Email education@ahsgardening.org or call 703-768-5700 ext. 140. Website: http://ahsgardening.org/gardening-programs/youth-gardening/ncygs/2017-ncygs/overview

  • Thursday, July 11 – Saturday, July 13 – National Children & Youth Garden Symposium

    The American Horticultural Society celebrates  garden-based teaching and learning at the National Children & Youth Garden Symposium, taking place Thursday, July 11 through Saturday, July 13 at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver, Colorado.  Registration opens this month,  April, 2013.  The event will feature keynote addresses by children’s gardening experts, tours of inspiring local gardens, and more than 50 educational sessions.  On July 10, participants can select from two pre-symposium tours.  One will visit the Gardens on Spring Creek in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Cheyenne Botanic Gardens in Wyoming.  The other will take attendees on a behind the scenes tour of three Denver-area school gardens that are part of the Denver Urban Gardens network. For more information, visit www.ahs.org/ncygs or call 703-768-5700, x 137.

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  • Thursday, July 22 – Saturday, July 24 – American Horticultural Society National Children & Youth Garden Symposium

    Register today for the 2010 American Horticultural Society National Children & Youth Garden Symposium, to be held July 22 – July 24 in Pasadena, California.  The Symposium’s theme is “The Vitality of Gardens: Energizing the Learning Environment.”  Featured keynote speakers include Alice Waters, chef, author, and proprietor of Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, and the founder of The Edible Schoolyard.  Also, meet Sam Levin, one of six co-founders of Project Sprout, an organic, student-run garden on the school grounds in Massachusetts, and Roger Swain, familiar to many American gardeners as the genial host for 15 years of the popular PBS television program The Victory Garden.  The Symposium is hosted by the Descanso Gardens, Garden School Foundation, the Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, Kidspace Children’s Museum, Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens, and the University of California Common Ground Garden Program. For more information, log on to www.ahs.org.

    The restoration we seek in gardens is more essential than ever, but gardens are also sources of healthy food, environmental protection and personal fulfillment. The garden can be an incubator for fostering engaged citizens. For children and youth, a garden can be a science lab, art studio, kitchen, gathering place, theater of the imagination, a special place to explore the world.

    Come learn how to create and use gardens to provide dynamic environments for experimentation, social engagement, self-expression, and connection to the natural world. Hear from youth, the adults in their lives, and national experts about the vital role of gardens in the lives of today’s youth.

    As a symposium attendee you will participate in the only national symposium that explores the positive impact of gardens in the lives of children and youth, meet and learn from leading youth garden experts, receive useful and relevant project, curriculum, design and garden management ideas, explore the gardens and programs of the Symposium hosts, participate in 3 dynamic days of workshops, lectures, poster sessions and field trips and network and share your own expertise with children’s gardening advocates from across the nation. The early full registration fee is $330 (AHS members $290) before June 1, and $350 thereafter.   Lodging is available at the Westin Pasadena Hotel (the location of the sessions) at a discounted special rate of $155/night for reservations made by July 9.  Call the hotel at  866-837-4181 and ask for the National Children & Youth Garden Symposium room block.

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