Pedagogical School Vegetable Gardens: An Educational and Nutritional Concept

The purpose of this article is to present the project Implementation and conduction of technical-pedagogical gardens for schools in the states of Maranh？o and Piauí, previously discussing the current framework of legal framework in Brazil on the Right to Adequate Food, Food and Nutrition Security and highlighting the relevance and main characteristics of a reference school garden. The proposed implementation of this project is a strategy for structuring gardening models in public education institutions that serve children and adolescents in the age group of 6 to 14 years. This is the initial step towards the consolidation of the School Vegetable Program for Improvement of Eating Habits, which aims to contribute to the process of a pedagogy aimed at the construction of healthy and sustainable eating habits