Summer School in the Garden at Thetford Elementary

Our seven school lunch beds, six theme beds, raspberries, blueberries, and fruit trees are all doing spectacularly well this year. TES summer school students adopted garden beds as a part of their summer curriculum. They learned how to take care of a garden: weeding, thinning, watering, deadheading, and picking bugs – and they learned a lot about science and math along the way! They kept their compost through the session to learn from it before adding it to the on-site compost system. On the last day of class the students had a harvest party with fresh salad and veggies, nasturtium pesto, and homemade ice cream with fresh blueberries. – Cat Buxton, School Garden Manager, Thetford Elementary School, Thetford, VT