In a learning garden, children and everyone else involved e.g. volunteers, project managers, and teachers can learn about the source of their food, and gain knowledge on how to grow their own crops through inexpensive and sustainable methods. Nature in cities can play a key role in achieving a healthy society, and enables its members, both  collectively as well as individually, to benefit in ways that would not otherwise be possible.

Learning gardens have proven to be valuable tools to increase one’s life satisfaction, promote healthier eating habits, appreciate locally grown food sources, teach environmental management, promote teamwork and cooperation, encourage community and social development, as well as provide a sense of place (Rutgers 2013; Soga, Gaston and Yamaura, 2017; Ohly et al., 2016). Furthermore, learning gardens can offer several additional advantages to the people involved such as: employment, as older/former participants with time obtain skills to undertake the training of new participants, and entrepreneurship oppurtunities, e.g. producing salable goods from the learning gardens’ crops and flowers.