Ewa Elementary Edible Learning Garden

Program Type: 
Garden Classrooms
Grade Level/Age Group: 
Upper Elementary
Number of Individuals Program Serves: 
100
Year Founded: 
2012
About the Program: 

Our Edible Learning Garden consists of various garden beds that incorporate different learning objectives.  Each garden bed holds a different theme and includes all the edible yummies chosen by both the students and teachers.  We have a pizza garden, fibonnacci garden (Math garden), Jack's Beanstalk (a garden bed filled with various beans), an Ewa Taro Patch (Lo'i with dryland taro), edible flower garden, Colonial garden (with wheat, potatoes, corn) and a 3 sister's garden. 

Students help to plant, maintain, harvest and cook using ingredients from the garden.  We learn about proper dining etiquette and conversation different scientific elements of raising and growing crops, decomposers in the garden and composting.  Students love cooking and eathing the most - vegetables never tasted so good.