Martin Petitjean Elementary

The school garden at Martin Petitjean Elementary will serve as a useful teaching tool. When used as outdoor laboratories, this school garden will enhance students' knowledge of where food comes from, how food is grown, plant life cycles, nutrient cycles, seasons, plant and animal interactions and other useful topics that are commonly found in standardized lessons used across Louisiana.

Beyond improving the students' knowledge of the natural world, this school garden will be designed to yield fresh, nutritious, and locally-grown produce. The students who engage in planting and tending the garden may be more willing to try fruit and vegetable crops that they normally would pass up or turn down. Consuming the produce at this school garden is one of the many rewards of growing a school garden.