Woodstock North High School Garden

The Woodstock North High School Garden is dedicated to creating a successful, sustainable outdoor classroom using organic methods, for the benefit of the students, staff, and community. Children learn to enjoy gardening in a positive manner, learn healthy eating habits, and learn how to use gardening to survive and prosper in the world, through decision-making, collaboration, and responsibility. The garden provides food for the school cafeteria, culinary arts, and an in-house food pantry for students of needy families. The garden also provides a beautiful environment for the school grounds, encourages respect for nature, and a peaceful place for retreat. The garden reinforces areas of the school's curriculum, through active, hands-on experience, including science, mathematics, literature, music, art, history, foreign languages, home economics, physical education, special education, and life skills. It is the hopes of the Woodstock North Sustainable Garden to provide a greater understanding of the natural world and develop a strong sense of community to ensure the continuation of our society. Most importantly, gardening is a fun and lifelong hobby. Spending time outside, exploring with plants, trees, and soil, observing the growing process, and crop-harvesting can be an enjoyable and memorable way for all to spend their time.