Serene Harbor Garden Classroom

About Us

Our Serene Harbor Garden is a unique, outdoor classroom that provides an atmosphere to encourage our students to explore, dream, and learn.

There are so many distractions in today’s world, and national surveys say most children spend very little or no time observing or interacting in their natural environment and surroundings. Children learn best through their everyday experiences with the people they trust and when learning is fun. One of the best places for these experiences is outdoors, in the natural world.

Serene Harbor Garden includes areas both for native vegetation and to grow vegetables and other plants. The seating area is suitable for instruction, as well as school-sponsored outdoor events. Our school garden consists of multiple planting beds where students in grades K-5 plant and nurture edible herbs, flowers and vegetables from seed to harvest. Together with our PTO, we organize weekend garden day events where families can come to enjoy some quality time working in the garden! We also plan to have several family events where students get to create dishes using our harvest to learn how delicious freshly grown produce can taste.

Our Serene Harbor Garden is evolving into a very special showcase for our school. Because what we feed our children, and what we teach them about food in school shapes how they learn, how they grow and how long they will live. 

• Children who grow their own food are more likely to eat fruits and vegetables and to be more knowledgeable about nutrition.

• They are also more likely to continue healthy eating habits throughout their lives.

• Children who eat fruits and vegetables are more to carry this healthy habit into adulthood, as well, which can stave off diet-related disease over their lifetimes.

School gardens programs not only promote healthy lifestyles in children, but have also been shown to improve children's behavior and performance at school and improve their attitudes about and appreciation for the environment. Gardens serve as great outdoor classrooms for any number of subjects, including science and ecology, math, creative writing and art. School gardens are wonderful spaces for kids with different learning styles and abilities to work in groups and engage in hands-on, cross-disciplinary education.