Grove Park Elementary School

The Wild about Learning through Gardening” project will be located on a 20m x 20m lot of ground from which two condemned portables were razed and cleared a year ago. The area is bathed in 10-12 hours of full sunlight, year round. Under the leadership of the K-6 Gifted classes, with an allowance for school wide collaborative voice and involvement in all project phases, we decided on raised bed herbs and vegetable plants, and experimentally safe gardening types and methods and shapes such as keyhole gardens, gunny sack gardens, and straw bale gardens. In addition we are going to collect rain water in 55 gallon drums and water as much as possible with natural water, teaching the conservation methods in this approach. We will develop a worm farm for raising composting worms. We will also communicate worldwide with an investigation called Tulip Test Garden and participate in citizen science to help monitor seasonal change.