Garden Archive

A look at some photos from the past, showing how the garden developed and highlighting some fun projects. 

​"I did not start a garden simply to grow a few vegetables and flowers. The garden was used as a means to show how willing and anxious children are to work, and to teach them in their work some necessary civic virtues; private care of public property, economy, honesty, application, concentration, self government, civic pride, justice, the dignity of labor, and the love of nature by opening to their minds the little we know of her mysteries, more wonderful than any fairy tale."

1902, Fannie Griscom Parsons started the Children's School Farm in Manhattan, NY.  

Enjoying the Sunflower House!

1st Grade Planting a Rainbow

2nd Grade, sorting our rock collection and learning about Geodes!

Planted in 2008...The first apple from the Arkansas Black Spur...October 2013

A Little Lizard Friend...

4 Square American Colonial Garden & the Betsy Ross Flag by 5th Grade

Stop by and see the Composting Mural!

Thank you to the Merz Family for donating this redwood tree!

It's fun to make magical fairy gardens!

NPK: made with our food scraps, decomposers, and worms from Uncle Pete's Worm Farm!

The garden is lonely in the summer...

Inside the Nature Center - Spring 2014

Our Amazing Kinders!

5th Grade fixing up the 4 Square American Colonial Garden - good job everyone!

School Farmers' Market

Erosion Study Area, 5th Grade

Our beautiful bottle tree!

Orange-Glo Watermelon is delicious!

Where are the trees?

Santa Ynez Valley Watershed Project - Ms. Reilly's 4th Grade

Established Summer, 2008...

“... the garden furnishes abundance of subject matter for use in the composition, spelling, reading, arithmetic, geography, and history classes. A real bug found eating on the child’s cabbage plant in his little garden will be taken up with a vengeance in his composition class. He would much prefer to spell the real, living radish in the garden than the lifeless radish in the book. He would much prefer to figure on the profit of the onions sold from his garden than those sold by some John Jones of Philadelphia.”
                                                                                                                                                                ~ George Washington Carver (1864-1943) 

Thank You for Helping Our Garden Grow!