Chancellor State College Middle School
My only High School and how much quicker the students
understand. Years 8 - 10 Environmental students were
involved in the program and they very quickly got the concept of
design and had a design drawn up.
The students sourced donations and were very successful.
They already had a fenced area in which to put the garden.
In an afternoon students and parents quickly transferred their
design from paper into reality. What I loved about working
with these students, besides their fast absorption of
information, was their inquiring minds.
For example one student asked me 'my sister has cancer, what
plants can I grow that could help her?'. They understood
that plants are living and are for wellness.
The garden is to be incorporated into the home economics
classes.
Note from Leonie:
As the Edible School Gardens program is being developed and
constantly improved, it is important that I look back on each
school and evaluate how the program ran in that school and if it
could have been done differently to make it more
successful. Here I talk honestly about all those
things that could have been done differently so that hopefully
you won't make the same mistakes.