Barlow Mountain Elementary School

Barlow Mountain Elementary School's garden serves as an organic Outdoor Classroom that supplements and enhances the curriculum, as well as producing fruits, vegetables and herbs to the BMES community promoting a relationship with nature and healthy living. The Outdoor Classroom encompasses the goals and support of the teachers, staff, administration, students, parents and greater community to ensure that it also serves to build the community. We have plans to extend the garden beyond our current operations, by installing a nature path around our school. The theme of the path will be an Alphabet path and feature plants in alphabetical order. In addition, we will highlight local bird and animal habitats. Finally, we will feature fruit trees throughout. The Whole Food Foundation grant will provide the funds to purchase the fruit trees and install the nature path to expand the Outdoor Classroom and the learning opportunities.