Food for thought: School garden uses crops to teach science, life skills
Tubing arches over most of the raised beds in the school garden. As chilly weather arrives, gardeners can drape plastic sheeting over the beds to retain heat and keep frost and snow off of the plants. This extends the length of the growing season at the garden, which means more mixed green salads for the schools.
Just behind Rae C. Stedman Elementary School a large garden teeming with life offers students and community members a new classroom for learning.
The School + Community Garden is comprised of a greenhouse, rows of raised beds that convert into hoop houses, a tool shed and planters fashioned from tires, crab pots and gutters now used to grow perennials, pole beans and strawberries.
The children's touches abound in the garden from hand-painted signs to the dinosaur figurines poured into round concrete tiles. The up-cycled tires take on a new life in vibrant tones of red, green and blue.
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