GARDEN STORIES

Stories of hope, inspiration, and of course — gardening!

Variety-The Spice of Life

In January we brought ‘Variety…The Spice of Life’ to 39 Wyoming Public School STEM classrooms. Students learned how eating a variety of colors of fruits and vegetables gives us a variety of the vitamins and minerals that make our bodies strong and healthy. We use MyPlate, which was created by the U.S. Department of Agriculture,...

Harvest Time!

  Harvest Time in our school gardens includes picking, weighing, washing, preparing and tasting! Watch the excitement, in this video, as the students at West Godwin Elementary  discover cucamelons growing from overhanging vines and show off the radishes, peppers, cucumbers and other vegetables they have harvested. After harvesting, students took their vegetables to a scale...

Herb Gardens for Seniors

Part of our mission at H.O.P.E Gardens (Helping Other People Eat) is to inspire our student gardeners to not only grow food for themselves but to also consider helping the people in their community have access to healthy garden produce. Our middle and junior high students embraced the challenge by planting beautiful herb gardens as...