Syringa Mountain School

The Syringa Mountain School aims to showcase a community and student empowered garden space. The gardens serve as a learning lab for students, parents, and staff alike. Unique to the school's experiential curriculum is vegetable and herb propagation, seed saving, food preservation, medicine making, composting, plant identification and other practical skills. Central to the gardens are bio-dynamically prepared composts and teas that enhance soil life. Besides an enticing and tasty backdrop for curious summer campers, vegetables are harvested and stored in the fall and used for the beloved "soup day"! Every effort is made to utilize what we grow in the garden to further children's understanding of their connection with the natural world and its necessity in our lives. The request for grant monies will allow the school to acquire bulk ingredients for creating our very own potting soil, will be used build a dedicated composting infrastructure/bring fertility to our garden beds, and finally will be used to bolster an inadequate fleet of tools.