2025 NCYGS Call for Sessions

The American Horticultural Society is now accepting session proposals for the 33rd annual National Children & Youth Garden Symposium, “Science and History in Youth Gardening,” in Hartford, CT from Tuesday, July 8–Friday, July 11, 2025. We encourage youth garden educators from across the fields to apply! Please review the proposal guidance and submit your session proposals by Friday, January 3, 2025. All submissions will be notified of decisions in January 2025. For further information and to submit a proposal, visit our symposium webpage.

2025 Symposium Theme: Science & History in Youth Gardening

This year, the American Horticultural Society’s National Children & Youth Garden Symposium explores relationships between gardens, science, and history. From July 8–11 in Hartford, CT, hundreds of educators from around the country will unite to share how gardens can embody and serve as teaching tools, both for scientific concepts and for collective memory of landscape and culture.

Our 2024 symposium offers interactive learning sessions, from basic building blocks to advanced topics, addressing pre-K–12 learning. Personalized visits to the area’s impressive and relevant gardens will offer opportunities to apply new concepts and connect with fellow youth garden educators from a diversity of communities. Come for the fun and learn skills, ideas, contacts, and resources to bring back to your own community!