Garden Classrooms

The goal of the garden of to create an area that serves multiple educational purposes. Fourth grade students will "buddy-up" with Kindergarten classes as readers and garden consultants. The intermediate students will read books regarding plants, planting and gardening with primary students, will help them plant in the garden and ultimately create an A-Z book about the garden. This will create leadership and mentoring roles for our older students and will incorporate reading skills and lessons taught to kindergartners with a real world experience.

We will build the soils fertility through green cover crops and compost additions. We will build raised beds, build a perimeter around the field to limit grass and weed infiltration to the field. We will use netting to limit pest access to the crops. We will use a rain catch barrel system and drip lines to lessen clean tap-able water use. We will use prevention and crop rotations methods.

We wish to provide a unique winter gardening experience for students to grow and harvest cool-weather vegetables during our typically-dormant winter months. They will be able to eat this produce and donate the extra food to our families-in-need and/or the local soup kitchen. We

The goal of the Canyon Harvest Project is to add a permanent, heavy-duty shed for storing garden and education materials and a drip irrigation system to reduce water runoff and educate students on the importance of water resources and to minimize mildew on plants. Such a system would allow us to continue growing crops over the summer holiday. Summer crops include squash, pumpkin and corn that could be used in a fall harvest celebration. Additionally, we would like to purchase soil, compost and seedlings to replenish our containers throughout the school year.