“Learn, share and grow”
Seycove Secondary’s Special Education staff and students plan for a spring vegetable garden
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| The Seycove garden, summer, 2009 |
November 4, 2009
If you’re a gardener, winter is a good time to get out the seed catalogues and start planning. The thriving two-year-old garden project at Seycove Secondary has now been put to bed for the winter, and the plan for spring is to grow a cornucopia of fruit and vegetables for a variety of good uses. Two varieties of potatoes; swiss chard, carrots, bush beans, celery, zucchini, spaghetti squash and several types of berries will all be grown in next year’s garden by staff and students in Seycove’s Special Education department.
The garden grew out of a 2007 project to re-landscape the school’s front grounds. In collaboration with the School District’s facilities department, a portion of the site was redesigned as raised vegetable beds to create a Special Education work experience project. Through an initial grant from Vancouver Coastal Health, the team was able to buy seeds, stock and gardening tools. While the gardening itself is one form of work experience, the produce are also used in a cooking program. Excess produce is donated to the Edible Garden Project to share with low income families on the North Shore.
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