About the Project

As JBHS Cultivators of Growth, students in our Independent Living Skills Moderate/Severe Special Education program will establish a container garden at our school site. Using raised garden beds our students will plant, grow, and harvest a variety of herbs and vegetables. By doing so our students will have unique opportunities for hands on learning experiences in daily living skills, develop essential job skills to increase independence, foster an understanding of sustainability and caring for our earth, participate in real time lessons in life sciences, and be provided the opportunity to participate in farm to table experiences through growing and harvesting food that can be used in our twice monthly cooking lessons. Additional lessons can be developed and implemented throughout the school year to support our gardening activities in math and reading. By exposing our students to these important lessons and activities we are also giving them functional skills and knowledge they can carry with them beyond our program and into adulthood.