Belle Chasse Academy

The mission of the Belle Chasse Academy Victory Garden is to provide students and their families with life skills, health literacy, and economic insight through the integration of the garden and kitchen classroom experience into our daily school curriculum and the local economy.  This will be accomplished through a hands-on holistic approach that immerses students in gardening, making healthy food choices, improving our environment, and becoming a community with a smaller carbon footprint and larger ecological “hand-print.”

Belle Chasse Academy serves 985 students in grades K-8. Located on a Naval Reserve Base in Belle Chasse, LA we educate the children of military and civilian families. 52% of our student body is comprised of minoritiy students. In 2014 we created a 625 sq. foot Teaching Garden designed to be an outdoor learning lab to enhance learning across the curriculum in all core subjects. In 2015 we built an additional 8 raised beds for grades 1-8. Our full-time School Garden Coordinator is a certified teacher and works with the faculty to assist them in integrating their lessons with the garden. Every student will spend a significant amount of time in the garden throughout the school year.