A New Adventure
Winfield Scott School No. 2 was awarded a Raised Garden Bed! John from Groundwork Elizabeth taught the students that every corner of their garden will always offer something new to discover.
A tiny seed mixes water, soil, and sunlight to create its own food 🌱
We look forward to seeing your garden grow!
From Seed to Sprout!
Our first trip of the Season with Groundwork Elizabeth!
School 8 was awarded with an ADA raised Garden Bed! Our wonderful gardener Ashley from Groundwork taught the students how to plant different foods and flowers. The kids also promised to water them throughout the summertime. We are so excited to see how their plants grow!
We made corn salsa using cilantro from our hydroponics garden. Our chives are in bloom, our snap peas are climbing up the trellis, and our potatoes are growing leaves. We found a rainbow in our garden during our scavenger hunt!
As the warm weather finally arrived, our students eagerly stepped outside to breathe new life into the sensory garden. The air was filled with a sense of renewal as they began the hands-on work of tending to the garden bed and preparing for a new season of growth.
For our young gardeners, the true joy lies in the journey ahead—the patient, daily observation of watching their hard work transform from tiny sprouts into a flourishing landscape of color and texture.
Students of the 5th Grade Environmental Club were thrilled to see leaves return to our new pear tree! Thank you to the Fruitful Futures Grant for the support in growing our food forest.
Last year, a cherry tree was located on our school grounds! Students recently received a lesson on how the flowers of the cherry tree will soon turn to fruit.
The School No. 4 Environmental Club was thrilled to see our strawberry field return after a cold winter! Students are monitoring how the flowers are turning into budding strawberries! We hope to be snacking on them soon! Thank you to the Union County Kids Dig In Grant and Groundwork Elizabeth for making this possible!
Back in October 2025, students learned how to plant multiple garlic plants from a single bulb, by splitting the bulb into individual cloves and planting them upright. All year, we have been monitoring their growth, and we are finally seeing that they are growing rapidly! Students will harvest this garlic before graduating in June. Thanks to the Union County Kids Dig In Grant, we have the materials needed to make this an annual activity!
Our students were thrilled to find that after a long, cold winter, our raspberry bushes are back and better than ever! We are hoping for fruit this year!
Winter Sowing & Pickling Cucumbers
We can’t wait until we can start our summer garden! In preparation, we started seeds in milk jugs and seeds snails and already see some seedlings emerging. While we wait for warmer weather to plant outdoors, we are happily growing herbs in our classroom hydroponics unit. We used our fresh dill to pickle cucumbers and enjoyed eating crispy, delicious pickles.
