This summer, Crestwood Elementary is piloting a summer program designed to teach students about Permaculture design, gardening, art, cooking, and nutrition. They are working with scientists, teachers, and permaculture gardeners with a three week curriculum. This curriculum will be available free of charge to other Nevada schools so that they can use it when designing their own summer programs.
The students participating are exploring topics from:
hands on science learning
art projects
Permaculture
responsible living
nutrition exploration
With the help of groups like Green our Planet, Garden Farms, The American Heart Association, and lots of enthusiastic parents, teachers and community partners like Star Nursery, this summer camp is thriving.
The students are beaming and can't wait to give us a tour of the garden.
Our host and tour guide, Luisa, will be starting the 4th grade after this Summer.
She stops at every garden bed to tell us what's growing in them.
Lavender, tomatoes, marigolds, pumpkins are all just a few of the overflowing garden varieties that Luisa recalls by name just by looking at the plants.
She explains that they created the outdoor classroom bench out of mud and then painted it to look like a very long caterpillar. That caterpillar is where students sit and take notes under a large mulberry tree while the teacher writes on an outdoor white board.
After the tour we followed Luisa back into the classroom where a fresh from the garden lunch was well on it's way to being prepared. Students circled a table where a local chef was delegating food prep tasks to each of the children.
There's a definite excitement in the air to taste what they've been growing.
Thanks for inviting us Crestwood! We're happy to help!
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