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Teamwork through Gardening
A playful environment where young gardeners can learn through discovery! Soon to be filled with color, texture, and interactive features!
This is the perfect setting for hands-on exploration and growing confidence in the garden. We are very excited to see how the new raised garden bed turns out!
Growing Together
A big thank you to the team at Groundwork Elizabeth for helping Jerome Dunn Academy with their raised bed garden!
One fun fact about gardening is a process called Biofuel. It is widely known for helping plants grow by giving them energy through a process called Photosynthesis. Plants use sunlight, water, and air to make their own food and grow big and strong! Did you also know that biofuel can also be used to run machines, even cars?
Memories Made in The Garden
Union County Commissioner Stanley J. Neron joined Donald Stewart Center School No. 51 with their new raised garden bed!
All of the wonderful students that came out to see the presentation from John with Groundwork Elizabeth.
Did you know that plants can communicate with each other underground with tiny fungal threads? It’s called a Mycorrhizal Network 😊
We love the garden that has been growing and can’t wait to see how the new garden flourishes!
The Milkweed’s Home
Did you know that Milkweed is the only plant that monarch butterfly caterpillars can eat? We learned this from the Groundwork Elizabeth team!
We are excited for the students in the summer helping out with the garden to watch the plants grow!! Be on the lookout for Monarch Butterflies 😊
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.
