Lawrence Hall Youth Services

Program Type: 
Garden Classrooms
Grade Level/Age Group: 
High School
Number of Individuals Program Serves: 
100
Year Founded: 
2013
About the Program: 

The primary purpose of the garden is to create a space in which the urban students we serve at the Therapeutic Day School have a safe place in which to commune with nature and have a direct, sensory experience. These students utilize the garden through science classes where they learn how to grow seedlings, plant and provide maintenance, and harvest crops. Other students in the culinary arts class utilize those crops in menu items for the student run deli