Fred T. Korematsu Discovery Academy

Program Type: 
Garden Classrooms
Number of Individuals Program Serves: 
500
Year Founded: 
2012
About the Program: 

The Stonehurst Edible Schoolyard will serve as a living laboratory for school-age children and their parents on the Stonehurst campus. It will feature a food forest planting beds medicinal and culinary herb spirals fruit tree guilds living fences a teaching area and a state-of-the art composting/vermiculture system. This living laboratory will teach children about the science of soil the food cycle and their place in the web of life. The grant will fund plants and irrigation supplies.