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  Short term - 2007
  • Continue funding two part-time garden program coordinators and expand them to 24 weeks a year. 
  • Hire a part time trail manager/teacher; part time garden manager; part time general assistant.
  • Replace all of the garden boxes.
  • Install benches along the nature trail.
  • Install garden signs identifying the various garden areas as well as each teacher's garden.
  • Plant a small apple orchard.
  • 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. 
  • 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.
  • Increase the amount of produce grown and harvested by our students that is served in the school cafeterias during the fall growing season. 
  • Add a hoop house to extend the growing season. 
  • Continue the development of a science based dahlia propagation program for grades 2-4.
  • Begin the development of the 2nd phase of the nature trail.
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 school garden network to support ours and other school garden programs in the Greater Cincinnati Area.
  • 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.