Spectrum Garden

Program Type:

Garden Classrooms, School Cafeterias, Academic Classrooms

Grade Level/Age Group:

High School

Number of Individuals Program Serves:

100

Year Founded:

2012

About the Program:

Our blog

http://speggtrum.tumblr.com/

We are an alternate school in the Vancouver School Board, BC, Canada. We have a school garden based on permaculture principles which includes 5 garden beds, a composting system & 4 chickens. Our cafeteria program uses the food produced by our garden amongst the ingredients to cook lunches for our entire student population.

We are the pilot school in the VSB for chickens & we built our coop in Science class then installed our chickens Feb 2013. Our community partners are the Envionmental Youth Alliance [EYA] & Thinks and Eat Green in Schools[TEGS]. We also work with Foodwisdom a family run social enterprise who have done workshops using our chicken's eggs to make food.