Canon Exploratory

Our garden will serve as both a community garden for a nearby low income housing unit, a residential home for adults with special needs and an outdoor classroom for our K-7th grade students. Our students will learn through real world application as they design, plan, cultivate, plant, and tend the garden. We plan to build raised beds that will be filled with vegetables, fruits and edible flowers. Although, the garden will serve as an outdoor learning space for the entire school, the installation of the garden will be a 7th grade project. Students will research how community gardens benefit the school and the community, how to design an effective layout, the types of plants we can and should grow, create a budget for installation and maintenance, and how to care for a garden. They will submit their design to our District Grounds Maintenance Supervisor and the School Board.