H.B. Wilson Family School

With H.B Wilson’s school garden, we seek to engage students in a variety of areas that will create a healthy nutrition environment and foster improved student health. We believe that in doing so, this early learning experience in the garden will create positive relationships between healthy food and children. The school garden project enhances classroom programming to provide nutrition education and hands-on sustainable agricultural practice, provided weekly by two FoodCorps service members. The garden is an accessible and hands-on tool for teachers to use with their students. While using this outdoor classroom, students take away a variety of related and thought-provoking concepts, including planet and human health, urban agriculture, and garden-to-kitchen methodology.

Support from the Whole Kids Foundation has allowed for continued expansion of the garden including the addition of construction materials, soil amendments, seeds, seedlings, and watering tools. After recieving the grant in the spring of 2015, Amy and Alexis brought in large amounts of topsoil, compost, and mulch; pavers for the garden beds; and perennial plants. They also purchased hand tools and a large storage container. Changes to the garden have been well-recieved and time spent there is often echoed by enthusiastic cheers from staff and students about how much they love the garden and the changes they've seen!