Involvement with garden activities is an excellent opportunity for educational recreation, in addition to providing knowledge and awakening skills. Thus, the work aimed to involve adolescents in workshops for cultivating and maintaining a vegetable garden, promoting self-confidence and strengthening affective bonds. Six workshops were held, where participants had contact with the soil, plants and agroecological farming practices. The work contributed to the valorization of teamwork, understanding about food production and healthy habits, allowing teenagers the experience of growing organic vegetables that arrived at the table of their families. It promoted the direct involvement of the university with the community and the effective performance of the students in real problems, as well as the encouragement to look more sympathetically towards others, and the greater visibility of the educational institution with society.
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