Montessori articulates in The Montessori Method, "...man still belongs to nature, and especially when he is a child, he...draws from it the forces necessary to the development of the body and the spirit. We have intimate communications with nature which have an influence, even a material influence, on the growth of the body...".  A window box, a barrel, or a small, raised garden will do just fine. You also need not have a green thumb yourself... READ MORE