Columbia Heights Public Schools’ Blooming Heights garden seeks to be a place of learning for its students and a place for growth for the nature around it, pollinators included.
Blooming Heights is host to a wide array of learning activities, including identifying the colors of things growing in the garden with help from parents and teachers.
Blooming Heights is host to a wide array of learning activities, including identifying the colors of things growing in the garden with help from parents and teachers.
Fruits and veggies aren’t the only things that get attention in the Blooming Heights garden. Here, students dig for worms to learn more about the many organisms that help contribute to a healthy soil.
Visitors to the Blooming Heights garden are able to literally taste the fruits of their endeavors when it comes time to pick and eat the fruits and vegetables they’ve been learning to make grow.
Visitors to the Blooming Heights garden are able to literally taste the fruits of their endeavors when it comes time to pick and eat the fruits and vegetables they’ve been learning to make grow.
Visitors to the Blooming Heights garden are able to literally taste the fruits of their endeavors when it comes time to pick and eat the fruits and vegetables they’ve been learning to make grow.
Columbia Heights Public Schools’ Blooming Heights garden seeks to be a place of learning for its students and a place for growth for the nature around it, pollinators included.
Columbia Heights Public Schools preschoolers enjoy cups of freshly pressed apple cider, from apples they plucked right off of Blooming Heights trees.
Columbia Heights Public Schools preschoolers enjoy cups of freshly pressed apple cider, from apples they plucked right off of Blooming Heights trees.
Blooming Heights is host to a wide array of learning activities, including identifying the colors of things growing in the garden with help from parents and teachers.
Photos courtesy Columbia Heights Public Schools
Blooming Heights is host to a wide array of learning activities, including identifying the colors of things growing in the garden with help from parents and teachers.
Fruits and veggies aren’t the only things that get attention in the Blooming Heights garden. Here, students dig for worms to learn more about the many organisms that help contribute to a healthy soil.
Visitors to the Blooming Heights garden are able to literally taste the fruits of their endeavors when it comes time to pick and eat the fruits and vegetables they’ve been learning to make grow.
Visitors to the Blooming Heights garden are able to literally taste the fruits of their endeavors when it comes time to pick and eat the fruits and vegetables they’ve been learning to make grow.
Photo courtesy Columbia Heights Public Schools
Visitors to the Blooming Heights garden are able to literally taste the fruits of their endeavors when it comes time to pick and eat the fruits and vegetables they’ve been learning to make grow.
Farm to table food can be hard enough to find on your own — Columbia Heights Public Schools are giving students opportunities to get them in the classroom. During the April 9 school board meeting, the board welcome Agricultural Specialist Melissa Trent to speak about her first six months leading the ag-focused program and let the community know what students are learning in the hands-on garden.
“Blooming Heights uses school gardens and nutrition programming to create equitable experiences, with students using all the senses and gaining skills to cultivate a healthy life and planet,” Trent said. “We’re committed to hands-on teaching and learning that highlights beauty, wonder and joy and encourages positive risk taking.”
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