Thursday, June 6, 2013

Health center, career center officials combine to create new vegetable garden at Sixth Grade Academy



Sixth Grade Academy students now can harvest vegetables with the addition of a new vegetable garden.  

Robert Cox, a prevention coordinator from the Taylor Teen Health Center, wanted to start a vegetable garden at the Sixth Grade Academy.  Robert approached Bob Murray from the Taylor Career Center to ask for help building the raised garden box.  Murray, along with assistant tech Paul Nowitzke and student Josh Demattio, volunteered to help. They built the boxes and donated the materials to make the garden a reality.

The garden will be used by Sixth Grade Academy students and the Taylor Teen Center's summer academy participants. The administrators are very excited and appreciate all the work that went into making the garden a success.   The vegetables will be harvested and donated to local food banks and students.

School gardens are a wonderful way to use the schoolyard as a classroom, reconnect students with the natural world and the true source of their food, and teach them valuable gardening and agriculture concepts and skills that integrate with several subjects, such as math, science, art, health and physical education, and social studies, as well as several educational goals, including personal and social responsibility.

If you would like more information on the Taylor Teen Health Center’s program please contact Robert Cox at 734-287-2076.

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