Wildcat Blooms

 Wildcat Blooms currenly has about 1/4 acre under cultivation. Students have grown a variety of vegetables and fruit, including: tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, potatoes, carrots, spinach onions, watermelon, strawberries, black-eyed peas, pumpkins, flowers and herbs. We recently planted 8 fruit trees and ten grapevines.

Our goal is to learn how to grow food for our community. At this time the food that is grown is prepared and eaten in classes and sold in a school-wide grower's market. All money raised at our grower's market is used to pay student farmers in the summer.

We are in the planning phase of adding an additional 1/4 acre as an urban food forest. Students are developing various planting guilds and will begin to put shovels in the ground on this project after we get community feedback on our plan. 

This is an urban school in the International District. Most of our students qualify for free and reduced lunch program. We have a high population of English language learners and a growing number of urban Native American students.

This garden is an opportunity for our students to learn how food is produced and the importance of building soil and conserving water. Students take great pride in knowing they are contributing to improving their community by offering inexpensive, high-quality to food to families in need.