Maple Gardens

We have an outdoor classroom with many learning opportunities for our students. We have raised vegetable beds, herb, shade, butterfly and bird gardens, fruit trees, blueberries and raspberries. We have two areas for classrooms to gather, one with picnic tables and the other is a half circle of granite seats. In the Spring of 2016 we got 12 chicks and a coop. The girls started laying at 18 weeks old and everyday we get 8-11 eggs. We have students involved in data collection on egg production, pre-vocational activities in the daily care and maintenance of the gardens and chickens. Everything we grow in our gardens and the eggs our chickens produce are served in our cafeteria. The 6th grade students have designed a greenhouse that we will be building in the spring. We'll be starting enough vegetables for our gardens here and for the students to bring home some to start their own gardens with their families.