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Granny's
Garden School

Keeping kids in touch
with nature
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  Short term - 2007
The Organization
  • Create multiple opportunities for various groups to make use of the gardens.
  • Create opportunities to expand the ways the gardens are used.
  • Develop ways to Increase the amount of produce grown and harvested by our students that is served in the school cafeterias during the fall growing season.
  • Increase the learning resources we offer to homeschooling and unschooling families.
  • Develop Granny's Victory Garden Camps.
  • Develop resources for attracting more volunteers.
The Gardens
  • Replace all of the garden boxes.
  • Install benches along the nature trail.
  • Install garden signs identifying the various garden areas.
  • Install garden signs identifying each teacher's garden.
  • Plant a small apple orchard.
  • Continue the development of curriculum connected garden based lesson plans.
2008
The organization
  • Update the website.
  • Take the School Garden Network off of the back burner and seek ways to support other developing school grounds based programs. 
  • Develop a written guide for starting a program and post it on the website.
  • Expand the Garden in a Bucket Program
  • Initiate a mini farmers market on the school grounds featuring produce grown by kids in their backyard gardens as well as excess produce from the school gardens in the summer. 
  • Network with Miami University to offer a teacher training program at our site as part of the Victory Garden Camp.
The gardens
  • Build a covered outdoor kitchen and learning center on the primary/elementary school campus where individual classes can prepare food.  This will allow us to complete the circle of planting, harvesting, preparing and eating food.  By exposing students to fresh produce and teaching them how to prepare it with simple tasty recipes, we can encourage good nutrition and healthy eating habits. 
  • Develop plans for additional ways to work the gardens into the curriculum, i.e. economics.
  • Add a hoop house to extend the growing season. 
Long term
  • Expand the program to other schools in the district and offer more after school and summer programs i.e. our program for home schoolers.
  • Publish a series of “Life in Granny’s Gardens,” books based on life in the gardens from the perspective of the plants, insects and animals that live there.  The books will be written and illustrated by 3rd and 4th grade students. 
  • Develop a series of training videos to train our volunteers as well as the many teachers and volunteers from other school districts that come to us for help.