Often, a garden plot—be it large or small—is the first step toward embracing and connecting children to the natural world in a school setting. Although a wonderful opportunity for promoting children’s growth and development, it is often a missed one because of adult notions about what a garden should be: neat, organized, weed-free, and a place where children merely plant and pick. Imagine what would happen if we shifted our thinking about school gardens from the traditional context of growing food and flowers to a much richer context of instilling memories, growing bodies, and enriching minds? What if we begin seeing the garden not just as a place for growing and harvesting, but a place for playing, creating, constructing, concocting, imagining, reading… and just being a child?