Northeast High

This garden is a project that will involve students in a class called E.P.I.C.S., which stands for Engineering Projects in Community Service. This is a program that combines Service Learning with Engineering and Civic Engagement. A team of students will work with a community garden (Fruitful Field)'s education coordinator, and a University of Florida Extension Service Farms to School Coordinator, and an after school club to design, plant, and care for the garden. We will use the garden as a teaching tool as well as a source of food. Our growing season is October to May, and we hope to expand the program for next year. Not only will this help our students in their critical thinking, creativity, design thinking, and engineering, but it will also teach them to teach others about soil, plants, nutrition, and healthy habits. We will grow easy plants in the first year: collards, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, chard, watermelon (later), herbs, & others the students research and choose.