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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