WISH CHARTER

Program Type: 
Garden Classrooms
Grade Level/Age Group: 
Middle School, Upper Elementary
Number of Individuals Program Serves: 
1,000
Year Founded: 
2015
About the Program: 

Our goal is to provide a garden classroom to our students. To expose them to their source of food and to teach them valuable gardening and horticulture concepts and skills that integrate with several subjects, such as math, science, art, health and physical education, and social studies, as well as several educational goals, including personal and social responsibility.

-To provide an education in horticulture
-Educate and inspire our children to become successful in the garden
-Extend our children's knowledge of vegetables, fruits, and landscape plants
-Raise awareness of what it means to grow your own food
-Create an education tool for all teachers at WISH