Ursuline Academy

The Herb Garden at Ursuline Academy is an effort to provide an outdoor, hands on learning environment where students can experience a wide variety of activities that support lessons in health and nutrition, and science while being enhanced in a cross curricular experience in art, English and other subject areas. Some areas of study will include:
1.) Life cycles using vermiculture (a worm farm with Red Wigglers) and butterflies
2. ) Recycling by producing compost and vermiculutre to naturally fertilize the soil with waste plant and food products
3.) Tending the garden by planting, watering, weeding and harvesting
4.) Tasting and cooking with produce harvested from the garden.
Some goals of the garden include:
1.) Increasing the understanding and participating in how food is grown
2.) Teaching lessons in food and nutrition by tasting and cooking with fresh grown produce
3.) Learning basic information about life cycles and how their actions (recycling) can influence the world in which they live.