Source: New Orleans schools embrace edible gardens | Gambit – New Orleans News and Entertainment
“St. Paul’s Episcopal School, which has students from 2 years old through eighth grade, started its garden program in 2008 as a way to teach sustainability and “service learning,” an educational approach that balances traditional classroom instruction with real life lessons. Today the garden is utilized throughout the curriculum, and each grade has its own garden bed with a theme that correlates to its studies. Fourth grade students studying the Middle Ages, for example, planted a medieval garden and eighth-graders learning about the Vietnam War used ingredients from their garden plot to prepare Vietnamese cuisine. Other themes include a space garden, a victory garden, a wetlands garden and a Native American garden. Director of Admissions Sylvia Parks and Sustainability Education Coordinator Susan Malone, a master gardener, say the students’ enthusiasm is infectious and the ongoing development of the garden is largely student driven. “The ideas just keep building,” Malone says.”
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