Dillard Academy Student Garden Project

 The Dillard Academy garden is a place for students, their families and the community to enrich their minds and nourish their bodies.  The garden was started in 2007 by Ms. Cheryl Alston, with Wayne Food Initiative.  Wayne Food Initiative is a "...community-based local food systems initiative. This site documents the continually developing plans and activities toward a local, sustainable farming and food system through the collective action of a number of individuals and organizations based in Wayne County."  The garden seeks to challenge students intellectually through hands-on experiential learning and garden-based curriculum intergration.  For the past year and a half, Dillard has had the opportunity to be teamed with a Food Corps service member through Center for Environmental Food Systems and North Carolina Cooperative Extension 4H, to help teach children about healthy food and where it comes from, build and tend school and community gardens and help students access for by connecting farms to the school cafeteria.