SMK Blog Post on BildungsAcker

Head out to the “BildungsAcker”! How student teachers experience and learn about education for sustainable development in a hands-on way

Published on July 8, 2026, by Lynn Winkler - SMK

In the “BildungsAcker” project seminar at TU Dresden, future secondary school teachers independently tend a plot of farmland in the Dresden Botanical Garden. Together with a farm coach and two professors, they learn what it takes to create a sustainable school garden. We took a look at the project firsthand.

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The BildungsAcker team includes Prof. Dr. Jana Markert, Prof. Nicole Raschke, Dr. Simone Reutemann (Chair of Geographic Education), and Dr. Veruska Prado Alexandre Weiß (Professor of Nutrition and Home Economics/Vocational Didactics).