Students at
James Wilson Young Middle School are learning about horticulture and
developing their green thumbs through tending to an aeroponic tower
garden in their classroom. The tower garden was donated by the PTA and
comes equipped with its own watering and lighting systems, which the
students worked hard to assemble. They then planted all the seeds
necessary to grow various vegetables and herbs and have since been busy
checking the garden’s PH regularly and making weekly observations.
The
students plan to use the food they’ve grown to set up a farmer’s market
in their classroom café and look forward to incorporating it into
recipes of their choice. According to teacher Rachel Kelly, they are
very excited about the project and “being able to watch something they
created grow – and grow pretty quickly — has been really beneficial for
them.”