Peace Wapiti Academy

About our Garden

Please describe your garden, is it raised beds, in the ground, do you have a greenhouse?

Our Applied Botany class has grew seedlings in our class, visited a number of garden centres to learn about gardening techniques and different types of plants, and spent a lot of time at our local Friendship Centre garden helping them to prepare the garden for this year's growing season, as well as planting out seeds and bedding plants. We were able to help spread a full 5 yards of garden soil to refill the garden beds and improve the solid conditions, as well as an additional 10 yards of mulch, to help suppress the weeds between the planting boxes and to start to amend the earth within the garden area.

What grade levels worked in the garden and did you or another teacher link some of your curriculum outcomes to the garden?

Applied Botany class. This garden is primarily used by the Friendship Centre as a teaching space, as well as a source for food and traditional medicines.

What classes participate in the garden, what subjects are taught in the garden?

Our Applied Botany class has grew seedlings in our class, visited a number of garden centres to learn about gardening techniques and different types of plants, and spent a lot of time at our local Friendship Centre garden helping them to prepare the garden for this year's growing season, as well as planting out seeds and bedding plants.

Who manages the garden day to day? Who manages the garden over the Summer break?

Applied Botany class.
There were 12 students in the Applied Botany class this year that took part in growing the seedlings and the yard work, and the garden itself gets used by literally hundreds of students and community members.

Do you have community involvement? Do you have parents and volunteers? Have been able to source other funding to help your garden grow?

There were 12 students in the Applied Botany class this year that took part in growing the seedlings and the yard work, and the garden itself gets used by literally hundreds of students and community members.

What are your future plans for the school garden?

We will be continuing to work on this project next year, as it was still a learning year for us in terms of how to make everything work effectively.