William Burgess Elementary School

Program Type: 
Garden Classrooms
Number of Individuals Program Serves: 
500
Year Founded: 
2012
About the Program: 

We are a downtown elementary school where the vast majority of children live in apartment buildings allowing for very little opportunities to interact with nature. Our garden vision is to develop an interactive natural learning space to be used by students teachers and the community at large. We will do this through creating a vegetable garden in the school courtyard. Teachers have built curriculum plans to involve the whole school in the rich learning opportunities a garden would provide.