Richards School

Richards School in Newport, NH has developed a collaborative garden project that will encourage positive choices with food and hobbies among students, families, school staff and community partners. This network of individuals who offer horticulture expertise, strong work ethic, a desire to eat fresh foods and a hope to develop mentoring/mentee relationships plan to start this project in the winter of 2014 with creating seedlings. In the spring of 2015 the seedlings will be planted in raised beds. Students will learn to care for things in nature and for each other during the entire process. A variety of traditional and untraditional vegetables will be shared among the student population through classroom activities and the school’s food program. Newport is a high poverty community and many of our students have limited access to fresh and vegetables. The school food program will purchase produce from the school garden to support the costs of sustaining the project year after year.