Granny's
Garden School
 

Connecting children

with nature

Tour - front courtyard- before & after
 

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What is Granny's Garden School? - Brief
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We broke ground in the courtyard summer 2002. Participants in the summer program planted cosmos, zinnias and alyssum in a two foot wide area bordering the parking lot and helped build the trellis house.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
This class is learning about garlic before planting it in the garden.  Fall, 2002 Kroger donated 50 garlic bulbs.  Each bulb had about a dozen cloves.  The kids planted them all over the school grounds.  It came up in the spring as green garlic (much like green onions).
 
Spring 2003
we expanded the gardens to include the whole front courtyard area.  We created gardens with trellises for the 2nd grade teachers whose classrooms surround the area and received a grant from International Paper to build a barn. This area has become the heart of our program.

Fall 2003
We decided to frame in all of the class gardens.  It was a big job but well worth the effort.  We started in the fall of 2003 and finished March 2004.  We put lots of composted leaf mulch on all of the garden beds.
Spring 2004
 We added a pizza garden in the center and surrounded it with a white picket fence

Spring 2006
Vandals destroyed much of the fencing and trellises in the gardens.  Fortunately it was in March and most of the plants were still dormant.  Unfortunately, the destruction included the trellis house. 
 
The community came together and helped us put most of the gardens back and even made them better.  We could not save the trellis house. 
Fall 2006

 
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."  Robert Louis Stevenson
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