Delta Elementary Charter School's Learning Garden

Program Type: 
Garden Classrooms
Grade Level/Age Group: 
Upper Elementary, Lower Elementary, Kindergarten
Number of Individuals Program Serves: 
500
Year Founded: 
2012
About the Program: 

The DECS Learning Garden gives each of our students hands-on experience in our agricultural community, while allowing teachers the opportunity to teach curriculum standards outside the four walls of the classroom.

  • Students learn responsibility through tasks such as planting, watering, weeding and harvesting their garden.
  • Students engage directly with the life-cycle of plants, and their affect on the environment around them.
  • Students gain valuable knowledge of the farm-to-table lifestyle of the Delta.
  • Students explore the unique setting of the garden, studying the riparian waterways and identifying the ecology of Clarksburg.