Hoffman Estates High School
Program Type:
Garden Classrooms
Grade Level/Age Group:
High School
Number of Individuals Program Serves:
5,000
Year Founded:
2013
About the Program:
The goals are to 1) engage our diverse population of students on the importance of good food choices to aide against childhood obesity 2) collaborate with the Science, Math, Health, Family Consumer Science, Applied Technology, and the Special Education departments to show how building and maintaining a garden connects to multiple aspects of education 3) update and organize our greenhouse to plant and maintain an assortment of plants in the fall and winter that will be replanted outside in the spring and summer 4) build raised beds to transplant the plants from the greenhouse to raised beds 5) build composts to make our own fertilizer 6) reduce our school