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Organic
Gardening
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.
Middle
school students work 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.
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