Shamrock Gardens

Program Type: 
Garden Classrooms
Grade Level/Age Group: 
Upper Elementary, Lower Elementary, Kindergarten
Number of Individuals Program Serves: 
500
Year Founded: 
2015
About the Program: 

Shamrock Gardens' gardening program was started in the 2000's by parents in the community around the school. The program seeks to engage students in hands-on, outdoor learning, bridging curriculum taught in the classroom with lessons in the gardens. Students also receive lessons inside cooking up veggies raised outside, learning about the nutritional benefits of having a diet rich in fruits and vegetables.

There are three separate gardens throughout the school, two vegetable gardens and one pollinator/ozone garden. A hoophouse for season extension growing is coming online in 2016, as well as a "Birds & Bees" garden, for lessons related to life cycles in nature.