Ridgewood Elementary School

Our goal at Ridgewood Elementary School is to establish a sense of community in our students. In our inaugural garden year, we planted vegetables and flower seedlings that our third and fourth grade teachers had started in the windowsills of their classrooms. We had an outpouring of parental and volunteer support to water, weed, and harvest our gardens this summer. We were thrilled to fulfill our primary goal of connecting to the community by donating over 6 loads of produce to our local SON ministries and Hilliard Free Summer Lunch Program for students in need. Our amazing art teacher used the sunflowers planted outside her window to inspire and create during her classes. Ideally, we will expand our current garden size and invest in quality soils. We would like to plant more traditional vegetables to harvest for the summer lunch program as well as implement a Butterfly Garden to study pollination in our fourth grade classes. We have found the Ridgewood Gardens to fill a void that we did not realize that we had and would like to continue to grow with your help!