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%\ 3+2(%( 087+$57 $VVRFLDWH (GLWRU It is a well-known fact a healthy diet consists of fruits and vegetables. This is especially important for children as they grow and age. To understand the importance of this healthy diet, children can see first hand how the food is grown. This is why two schools in Kosciusko County have created real, live gardens in which children can participate. The gardens are located on the schools’ campuses. Harrison Elementary School in Warsaw has a vegetable garden, located on the school’s campus. The goal is to create a fruit and vegetable garden to supplement school cafeteria lunches and the results have been positive. “In years past, we have provided veggies for our school lunches when we return to school in the fall,” said Deb McClintock, a second-grade teacher. The students help by pulling weeds and searching for fruit and vegetables. It all started when Judy Kinsey, a fourth-grade teacher at Harrison who has since retired, worked with a group of fourth through sixth-grade students on environmental projects. They called this group E-Club. McClintock took up the mantle after Kinsey retired about seven years ago. “We started with two raised bed gardens and kept adding more area to the garden areas each year,” McClintock said. “I
wanted to see students able to continue to participate in activities that would connect them to the world around them.” The class is growing tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, peppers, potatoes, carrots, green beans, pole beans, pumpkin gourds, zucchini, summer squash, lettuce, swiss chard, peas, radishes, sunflowers, zinnias, and other flowers. “We also have an herb garden. We grow milkweed plants to promote monarch butterfly habitat and have been a part of the Field Museum Monarch Butterfly Field Study,” McClintock said. Also, all of the native Indiana trees are planted around the Hoosier Heritage Log School and surrounding property. “We have apple trees planted on another location on the school property,” she stated. “The latest funds for the gardens have come from the Warsaw Education Foundation through Red Apple grants.” The class will begin the planting process after spring break. “My husband, Scott, who teaches fifth grade, also has raised bed gardens at Jefferson Elementary School. He will help me do the soil prep during spring break,” McClintock said. The students, she noted, are already coming up with ideas about what they
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want to have planted in the garden this year. ““We will add more to the planting around the first week of June,” she noted. “This way we have veggies that mature later in the summer and are ready when our students return in August.” The school uses the bountiful harvest for the cafeteria to make such things as homemade salsa, salads and roasted garden veggies in a chicken and rice dish. Lilly Le, a second grader, enjoys the flowers, she said, “because they smell good, especially sunflowers because you can eat the seeds.” Another second grader, Harvey Elder, said he likes tomatoes but his favorite is green beans, which are also grown in the garden. In the fall,
the students clean up the gardens in preparation for the next school year. In June 2019, McClintock was given a grant for $1,500 to bring nature closer with pollinator habitats. Creating a garden for pollinators, bees and other insects, including fruit trees and flowering plants to study their life cycles and demonstrate the value to environment. 7RS $ %2817,)8/ +$59(67 “ Pictured is last year÷s garden at Harrison Elementary School in Warsaw. The school cafeteria was able to use the bountiful harvest for school lunches. Photo provided. %HORZ 6&+22/ *$5'(1 “ Pictured from left are Jalessa Bynum, Harvey Elder and Lily Le working in the Harrison Elementary School garden in preparation for planting. The students will help maintain the garden until the end of the school year. Photo by Phoebe Muthart.
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