Principal Tim Lauer, now in his seventh year at Lewis, has watched his outdoor learning space expand to
include raised garden beds, greenhouses, composting bins, and even an outdoor classroom complete with eco-roof and barrels for harvesting rainwater.
Not exact matches
Forty school
gardens are located throughout the district
including raised beds, greenhouses, orchards, and potted herbs.
Students tended 20 school
gardens,
including orchards, greenhouses, and
raised beds, that served as learning labs and outdoor classrooms.
To get started, Byrne recommends
raising a minimum of $ 5,000 in order to «build a decent - sized
garden,
including raised beds, organic soil, proper irrigation, a shed (ideal, but not necessary), and curriculum to teach in the
garden.»
• Growing the largest school
garden in the state, one that
includes chickens, goats, pollinator
gardens, a lavender labyrinth,
raised beds for vegetable production and more.
By building
raised beds which are NEVER walked on, heavily mulched and fed by top dressings of large amounts of organic matter, proponents of no - dig
gardening say it protects vital soil life
including worms, microbes and mychorrizal fungi which all play a part in maintaining soil fertility.
The side of our yard needs to be landscaped still and we have been putting it off because we wanted to
include a couple of small
raised garden beds in our landscaping plan over there and we hadn't nailed down the exact layout of it yet.