Maggie Tuohy

Maggie Tuohy is the garden instructor at Seth Boyden Demonstration School, a Title 1 kindergarten to fith grade school in Maplewood, NJ. A Master Gardener and former volunteer, she is now a faculty member working to align the school’s garden and outdoor experience programs with the New Jersey state curriculum. The Outdoor Learning Center, which she helped develop, includes the Strawberry Fields teaching garden, a habitat garden, and a native arboretum. Every grade level has a garden bed to plan, plant, and maintain through which students learn math, history, and language arts. On garden walks in the rain, students also learn to hear the differences in the sounds on rainy versus dry days. Tuohy has empowered thousands of students to appreciate and interact with nature.