McEvans School Garden

The Delta Health Alliance (DHA) Healthy Living project promotes school gardens and offers support to develop garden infrastructure and to facilitate the use of the 5th Grade School Garden Curriculum, which was created by DHA and other partners specifically for Mississippi’s growing season and aligned to state standards. 

Current partners include Trigg Elementary with the Greenville Public School District in Washington County, MS, and the McEvans School with the West Bolivar County Consolidated School District in Bolivar County, MS. Since September 2015 the DHA garden project coordinator has assembled and met with school garden teams to design and install the gardens. In 2016 DHA will provide weekly supervision of garden planting and instruction to over 110 fifth grade students at the two schools during the spring, summer, and fall growing seasons. DHA regularly assess the performance of our programs on the basis of objective data that is produced and recorded as part of these projects, and entered and analyzed using the Efforts to Outcomes software case management system.