Garden Classrooms

This is Moberly's first foray into gardening. Many of our student (59%) are free/reduced students and received weekend buddy backpacks to take home. This garden will start with 5 4X4 raised beds which will grow cool weather vegetables and herbs to be used in our Family and Consumer Sciences class and at lunch. We have purchased a dehydrator to prolong the life of the herbs. We have an approximate 70 percent white, 10 percent Asian and Hisplanic and 20 percent African population grades 6-8. We have not created a mission statement yet.

Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is an innovative hunger-relief organization serving seven counties in and around the Triangle area of North Carolina.  We believe hunger IS fixable if the community works together to do two things: create sources of healthy food in every low-income neighborhood and grow opportunities for people to provide for themselves by learning job skills or growing their own food.

The Society Promoting Environmental Conservation first started the School Gardens Program through volunteers in 2008.  The goal of the program is to connect children to their food, to each other, to nature and to their community.  We currently partner with 13 schools across Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to help build and maintain school food gardens and to deliver school garden education.   We also support schools in obtaining funding to further their garden and food programs.

Our Garden Gourmet Club is made of 4th and 5th grade students that want to learn how to garden and use fresh produce to create healthy snacks and meals!  We have raised beds, a greenhouse, and an indoor grow lab where we grow vegetables like lettuce, carrots, radishes, and much more!  We then take our harvest to our kitchen lab to cut, chop, and create healthy foods!