Michigan 4-H Children's Gardens
The outdoor Michigan 4-H Children’s Garden opened in 1993 as one of the five major gardens of the Michigan State University Horticulture Demonstration Gardens. The half-acre garden features 30 special themed landscape and play areas, including a dinosaur garden, a pizza garden, a Peter Rabbit garden and the Alice in Wonderland Maze, which leads to a secret garden.
The Indoor 4-H Children's Garden opened in 2003 to provide year-round educational access to science-based learning.
In 2008, the 2,500 sq. ft. Schoolyard Demonstration Garden opened as a companion to the outdoor children's garden providing ideas and learning concepts to assist educators in developing local schoolyard gardens.
The garden’s mission is to promote an understanding of plants and the role they play in daily lives, nurture the wonder of a child’s imagination and curiosity, and provide a place for the enrichment and delight of its more than 150,000 annual visitors.
