Sharing Our Guilford County School Gardens

Open House kickoff highlights School Garden support

at Irving Park Elementary

 As with many of our schools with gardens, parent volunteers play a key role in supporting teachers in their use of these outdoor learning centers. Heather Fullagar, Dana Davis, and Kevin Reddy are just a few of the many parents atIrving Park Elementary (IPE) volunteering to support the garden.

Every teacher has a garden bed with signage. Parents and teachers signed up 

to care for the garden for a week at a time over the summer.

As a result, we saw beans, okra, sweet potato, tomatoes, strawberry, 

peppers, cantaloupe, watermelon and pumpkin!

Students and teachers are excited to come back to these yummy fruits and veggies! Teachers are already talking about what they want to grow in their

garden beds this fall. 

GCCE School Garden Network will hold gardening

workshops at IPE in October for interested teachers and parents.

 Let us know if you would like to participate!