Douglas School Garden

Program Type: 
Garden Classrooms
Grade Level/Age Group: 
Middle School, Upper Elementary
Number of Individuals Program Serves: 
100
Year Founded: 
2013
About the Program: 

We have a 120x30 square foot garden plot plus two edible tree/shrub plantings. Kids ages 12-17 help with planting, harvesting, sign making, and other garden activities. We do simple raw food demos whenever we harvest and tie nutritional education into it by taking turns reading from books like New Whole Foods Encyclopedia. We emphasize perennials and no-till gardening, using sheet mulch and other water-wise gardening methods.