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The garden started in December 2012, when dozens of parents, faculty, administrators, and students came out to break ground on the site. By February 2013 we had planted our first seeds. By May 2013 we had 4 vegetable beds, a food forest, an octagon gathering area, a chalkboard, and a pollinator garden. By August 2013 the garden had a 1,000 gallon rain cistern, and had expanded the vegetable beds for the after school Healthy Habits Club (click on the image below to go the Healthy Habits Club Blog). By June 2014 the garden had expanded to include a Monarch Garden, a raised bed for Pre-K specifically, and an area for expansion of the Food Forest.
The garden has a decidedly Jeffersonian design, in part because Monticello is visible from where our garden sits. From the Roots, Fruits, and Leaves layout mimicking the 1812 Monticello vegetable garden layout, the Octagon shaped gathering area, the fruit orchard and berry bushes, to the meandering shape of the flower beds, the garden is an echo to that innovative landscape. We try to be just as innovative. We have added a resting Fallow bed to our rotation. We experiment with treatments of peas to see which ones do best. We plant flowers not just for their aesthetics, but also for their ability to attract pollinators and provide habitat. Our garden is inspired by, but not limited to, the Jeffersonian landscape concepts.
The garden has a decidedly Jeffersonian design, in part because Monticello is visible from where our garden sits. From the Roots, Fruits, and Leaves layout mimicking the 1812 Monticello vegetable garden layout, the Octagon shaped gathering area, the fruit orchard and berry bushes, to the meandering shape of the flower beds, the garden is an echo to that innovative landscape. We try to be just as innovative. We have added a resting Fallow bed to our rotation. We experiment with treatments of peas to see which ones do best. We plant flowers not just for their aesthetics, but also for their ability to attract pollinators and provide habitat. Our garden is inspired by, but not limited to, the Jeffersonian landscape concepts.
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