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All levels of our PK-12 community use the garden as a backdrop and inspiration for a variety of lessons and activities, incorporating the garden and the insects it provides into the classroom. In late winter, students start seeds in grow tables and then in the spring, they transplant the seedlings into the garden.
Timeline
Timeline
January 2012 The seed is planted and a school garden is born
March 2012 Seedlings are planted in the classrooms
April 2012 Received the Whole Foods Garden Grant
May 2012 Broke ground on the garden
September 2012 The garden is coming along beautifully
October 2012 Garden dedication
May 2013 Garden work day
July 2013 Received the Lowes Grant
September 2013 Begin Youth Farmers Market
May 2014 Garden work day
November 2014 More building in the garden
December 2014 Received a grant for $14,000 for our Growing Dome
March 2021 Foundations program begins work on the garden
Who We Are
Who We Are
Foundations Flower Farmers
Foundations Flower Farmers
2023-24 School Year: The garden continues to be a source of pride for our Foundations program and the entire school community! Jolayne continued with her Plant Power class. Those students propagated and grew all different types of houseplants that were sold as a fundraiser for the garden. We had a Chili Cook Off that raised over $800 to put towards installing a sidewalk from the sheds to the greenhouse to make the garden more accessible to EVERYONE! We also received numerous seed donations and a raised garden bed from Botanical Interests.
2022-23 School Year: The Foundations program (grades 7-8) still will continue to spend every Friday afternoon in the garden. Students are expected to do service work in the garden each semester. This may look like weeding, harvesting, and specific garden projects like building a hoop house, composting, and more. There is also a Walkabout (grades 9-12) environmental science lab class with a focus on the garden. Students in this class will also design, create, and teach garden workshops to our elementary students.
2021-22 School Year: The Foundations program (grades 7-8) spends every Friday afternoon throughout the year on garden centered activities. This season we helped our school community start over 500 seedlings of flowers and some veggies. We had a very successful houseplant fundraiser! The greenhouse is revived with herbs and a waterfall fish pond. Work continues on the new hoop house and the garden beds got an upgrade with landscape fabric.
Spring 2021: The Foundations community (grades 7-8) is designing our next humanities theme around the community garden (and maybe beyond!). Our focus is on flower farming!
This means having our students take responsibility and ownership of the area. We think this is the perfect curriculum for middle school students to be engaged in- digging holes, playing in the dirt, and being in the sunshine!
We are excited about so many possibilities! Like...creating a walking labyrinth, nature journals, garden music & art, saving seeds, compost, hydroponics, container gardening, permaculture, solar cooking, selling plants, and SO MUCH MORE!
We want to help revive our beautiful garden space from the wintery pandemic and make you a part of it!
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