Dover High School & Community Garden

The Dover High School and Community Garden functions as an outdoor classroom for students enrolled in an Intro to Life Science class at Dover High School and Career Technical Center in Dover, New Hampshire. Students enrolled during the spring semester learn to plan a spring vegetable garden, start seeds indoors and outdoors, water, weed, mulch, and harvest spring crops. Students enrolled during the fall semester learn to plan a fall vegetable garden, start seeds outdoors, water, weed, harvest late summer and fall crops, and "put a garden to bed" for the winter. Students also learn about plant anatomy and physiology, plant taxonomy, pollination and pollinators, sustainable gardening methods, and the philosophy behind the Slow Food movement. Harvested crops are eaten by students in the garden, taken home to share with their families, donated to the school cafeteria, sold to students and staff through regular farmers' markets, and/or sold to the in-house Culinary Arts program.