Upper Elementary

The Community Garden at Roosevelt Elementary School is run year-round on the campus schoolground, and serves the students and families of Roosevelt School, as well as those of the adjacent Broadmoor Preschool, and families in the Roosevelt School community. The Community Garden is run by volunteers, and has eighteen garden beds, herbs, flowers, fruit trees and an educational sensory garden. The Community Garden is also the center of Roosevelt's lunchtime composting program, a parent-run project that conducts lunchtime composting and recycling throughout the year.

Hinsdale Nurseries, along with Custom Grove Landscaping, have collaborated with us to create a design of hardscapes and landscape that allows multiple classes of children reading, journaling, investigating and caring for plant life out of doors.

We have gardens designed around grade level studies. For instance, primary grades will plant bulbs, annuals to greet us and herbs and vegetables.

Comprehensive K-12 school in within NYC watershed in Catskill Mountains has a 1600sf raised bed organic garden. Classes also grown greens and other edibles in 4000sf greenhouse.  Currently we are in the process of creating a trellised 50 dwarf apple tree orchard. We compost materials from school cafeteria generating over 150 lbs. of biomass per day.   

The Arrowhead Nature Zone is a 3.5 acre land lab behind our school. Established in 1998 with the building of our greenhouse, we have expanded over the years and now have 2 ponds, a wetland, a chicken coop, berry bushes, 8 themed gardens and 16 classroom vegetable gardens. All of our students visit the Nature Zone regularly; they participate in weekly or bi-weekly greenhouse classes, plant and harvest their classroom gardens and care for our chickens.