Organic gardening is a favorite activity among the students on fall and spring afternoons. The K/5 gardens are located just outside the school’s classroom doors, where students grow medicinal and culinary herbs as well as flowers to add splashes of color to our already beautiful campus. Culinary herbs are often used by the K/1 students to make soup each week, a treat that the entire school community enjoys. This group also maintains the school’s composting system.

In the past, middle school students worked at the Black Mountain Community Garden under the direction of Dr. Wilson, a local Master Gardener. The harvest is delivered to a local soup kitchen, where students help serve a meal at least once each school year. Students learn what it takes to produce food on a larger scale and the connection between growing food and feeding people, as well as the satisfaction that comes from this essential and community-building outdoor activity.

This year, the 5th - 8th grade students are gardening on campus as part of Camp Rockmont's homesteading program. Already this year, students have harvested sorghum, cut and shucked corn, and picked raspberries.