Veazie Community School Garden

Category
Vegetable and herb Garden, Flowers and ornamentals, Greenhouse or hoop house

When was your garden project started?
We started our garden in the summer of 2016

What type of facility hosts your garden?
Our garden is on the school grounds of Veazie Community School.

What programs does your garden project include?
After School Garden Club, Summer Learning in the Garden Activities, Farm to table program growing produce for the cafeteria, connections through plant “adoptions” to the community and specifically to the Graham Senior Center.

Does your garden have a paid coordinator?
No

Who volunteers in your garden?
Nikki Richard, our custodians, Tara Frazier

How is your garden project funded?
Our garden is funded through donations and supplemented through the school budget when possible

What community connections do you have?
Connections with families throughout the community and we are building connections with the Senior Center in town.

Who tends the garden when school’s out?
Nikki Richard, our custodians, Tara Frazier

What are your future goals?
Our future goals for the garden are to create a love of the outdoors for the children of Veazie as well as a connection to the land and to promote healthy eating by growing the produce that goes into the cafeteria lunch program. Small plant adoptions throughout the year where children can plant seeds, watch them grow, and then take plants home are also a goal.

What is your most significant need?
Our most significant need at this time is funding for the people who tend the garden to work in the garden and our goal would be that we could send our Garden Caretaker, Nikki Richard, to more training around the use of school gardens.