Open Air Classroom
Windham Primary School
404 Gray Road
Windham, ME 04062
Aileen Pelletier
apelletier@rsu14.org
207-892-1840
Category
School Vegetable Garden, School Composting
When was your garden project started?
Spring of 2011
What type of facility hosts your garden?
Public School
What does your garden project include?
Vegetables, Composting Bin, Composting School Waste, Our Garden Produce Used in Cafeteria, Cooking or Taste Testing in Classroom, Fruit Trees
Who volunteers in your garden?
Teachers, School Staff, Parents, Family Members, Community Members
How is your garden project funded?
Grants, Donations
What community connections do you have?
Other Local Businesses, Food Pantries, Scout Groups
Who tends the garden when school’s out?
Volunteer students/families, Other volunteers, Summer school students, Me!
What are your future goals?
Because our garden is still fairly young, we want to manage what we have well before expanding with an item such as a green house. A future goal would be to have a garden manager to assist teachers in the curriculumn that surrounds student learning in the garden. Also, another goal would be to make students more and more aware of where their food comes from and the benefits associated with eating healthy foods; this will impact them their entire lives.
What is your most significant need?
Time. Currently the volunteers that work the garden are also fulltime teachers or staff members and it is a time consuming project.
