Garden Classrooms

We have an outdoor classroom with many learning opportunities for our students. We have raised vegetable beds, herb, shade, butterfly and bird gardens, fruit trees, blueberries and raspberries. We have two areas for classrooms to gather, one with picnic tables and the other is a half circle of granite seats. In the Spring of 2016 we got 12 chicks and a coop. The girls started laying at 18 weeks old and everyday we get 8-11 eggs. We have students involved in data collection on egg production, pre-vocational activities in the daily care and maintenance of the gardens and chickens.

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At Coretta Scott King Women's School, several classes rotate for bi-weekly gardening and nutrition lessons.

Our afterschool program tends to the garden and harvests and cooks with the vegetables weekly.

The goals of the garden program are (1) encourage healthy eating among students, staff, and the community; (2) teach our stakeholders the practices of sustainability and self-sufficiency by teaching them how to grow their own food; (3) equip our students with life skills while introducing them to service-learning and the proper stewardship of our environment.