Our students have created more than 3,000 bouquets that have been delivered through Meals-on-Wheels since 2003.

Each week, 2nd grade teacher Dede Gardis brings a class to the gardens to prepare fifty miniature bouquets that are inserted in florist water tubes to keep them fresh. Each child makes two bouquets and and sometimes they draw pictures or write short notes on cards they make. The bouquets are picked up by a Meals-on-Wheels driver then delivered along with the meals.  

The idea for Bouquets-on- Wheels came  from Granny's experience with her own mother receiving  Meals-on-Wheels.  The Meals program helped her family to allow her then 90 year old mother, Audra, to remain in her own home. Granny planted a picking garden at her mother's house so they could tend it together on her weekly visits. It became a part of their routine to pick flowers to deliver to the neighbors. 

One day, they picked a bouquet for the volunteer who delivered her mother's meals.  It occurred to Granny that it would be nice to be able to share the flowers with the other people he delivered meals to.  After that, each week they would prepare six bouquets for the people the volunteer delivered to after leaving Audra's. When she started the school garden program, Granny initiated Bouquets- on-Wheels.  Audra moved in with Granny in 2010 at the age of 93. Audra passed away peacefully, surrounded by her daughters, November, 2011 at the age of 94.