Garden Classrooms

The Dover High School and Community Garden functions as an outdoor classroom for students enrolled in an Intro to Life Science class at Dover High School and Career Technical Center in Dover, New Hampshire. Students enrolled during the spring semester learn to plan a spring vegetable garden, start seeds indoors and outdoors, water, weed, mulch, and harvest spring crops. Students enrolled during the fall semester learn to plan a fall vegetable garden, start seeds outdoors, water, weed, harvest late summer and fall crops, and "put a garden to bed" for the winter.

The Garden Program at Adelante Spanish Immersion School is a beloved part of the school culture.  Each grade has 9 weeks of Garden Class, with topics appropriate for the age level and grade's science standards.  In addition there is a free after-school Garden Club where students learn gardening techniques, play games, and, most importantly pick and eat salads.

We accomplish our mission by adopting an at-risk elementary school then starting from the

ground up by installing an Edible Desert Garden and using it as hub around which we plant

seeds of change throughout each school and within each child with our Healthy School,

Healthy Life program including:

•Edible Desert Gardens – Planting edible gardens provides hands-on learning

and nutrition education from the ground up for the students.

•Garden Club – Establishing a Garden Club in the school creates support from

We are basically trying to use 'lost' space around the school on floors and walls to grow food and show students that food does not come initially from supermarkets. It supports one of the IB PYP units of inquiry which is the title of the programme. It also supports a child nutrition centre that our school owner, Pilar Deza, founded in an extremely poor area of Lima quite close to the school, http://www.coninperu.org/.