Garden Club

Learning how to grow food and flowers from seed to fruition, students practice food sovereignty while having fun together in nature.

Lisa Welsh, Teacher & Holly Hetzel, Teacher

Kayla Anderson, Teaching Artist

Class Information

Grade Levels: 9th - 12th

Class Schedule (days/times): Tuesdays & Thursdays, 3pm - 5pm

Academic content: botany, agriculture, cultural foodways, food systems, collaboration, entrepreneurship

Art forms: gardening, sculpture, culinary arts

Big Idea: Fun and Food Sovereignty

Inquiry Question: How can we build a joyful community in the classroom while providing exciting, nutritious, and culturally relevant food for our community beyond the classroom? How can we have rewarding experiences with nature in an urban space?

North-Grand Garden Club is an ongoing project and CAPE collaboration! You can see our first year of activities and a list of gardening resources here, and our Summer 2022 internship here.

Garden Club is: Kimberly Ramos, Carlos Camacho, Joanna Rivera, Elizabeth Cazares, Jazmin Reyes, Damaris Cruz, Jada Irby, Tamisha Roberts, Maria Gramajo, Esmeralda Gomez, Joseph Briones, Elizabeth Martinez, Mario Echevarria, Isaac Cervantes, Citlalli Resendiz, Juan Martinez, David Silva, Adriana Ocampo, Melissa Lopez, Taino Santiago, Micaela Jacinto-Navarrete, Cielo Torres-Rodriguez, Jariah Crowder, Felicia Barnes, Dalisa Jackson, Isai Garcia, Emelin Feliciano, and Kimberly Sanchez.

Congrats to our graduating seniors: Kimberly Ramos, Carlos Camacho, Joanna Rivera, Joseph Briones, Citlalli Resendiz, Juan Martinez, David Silva, and Adriana Ocampo! We couldn't have started this garden without you! Our freshman, sophomores, and juniors will carry on your efforts!

Student Garden Club Goals:

To have fun while learning about, growing, and caring for plants
To spend time together getting up close and personal with plants, both indoors and outdoors
To help our neighborhood practice Food Sovereignty, defined by La Via Campesina as "the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems" while honoring our diverse cultural foodways
To grow healthy and delicious produce for the North-Grand community to be distributed through the campus Love Fridge
To repair, build, and maintain the garden as a loving, relaxing, and meditative space for students and their families to enjoy, for years into the future