This week you’re in for a treat! Our very own K-12 Garden Coordinator, Crystal Fritz, wrote a children’s story about building a new schoolyard garden. We asked Crystal to read us this book, Hooray!! You’re Building a Schoolyard Garden. 

Take a look!

Before building a new garden, it’s important to make sure you are ready for the project. Beyond getting staff and student support, you also need to consider where a garden will be successful. We like to come out to your school and do a site visit to help select the perfect spot. Hooray, You’re Building a Schoolyard Garden! 

On the day of your garden construction, the Schoolyard Gardens team from KCCG will drive out to your school in our big truck. We will bring tools like hammers and nails, and a tape measure. Our truck will also carry the large pieces of lumber that we use to make the rectangle garden beds. Sometimes our truck delivers the soil to your school, other times, our friends at LawnCorps bring out an even bigger truck full of garden mix soil. Hooray, You’re Building a Schoolyard Garden! 

You may be wondering how the garden beds get built. Well, that’s where you come in! We need your help to construct the beds. Hooray, You’re Building a Schoolyard Garden! You will carry the lumber, use hammers and nails and your strength to put the beds together. Next you will use your muscles to shovel soil into a wheelbarrow. Stop and touch the soil, even smell it, it’s really good stuff! 

Once the soil has been shoveled and wheeled over, together we dump it in the garden bed. Hooray, You’re Building a Schoolyard Garden! After a while, the new garden beds will be full of soil and the only thing left will be to start planting! 

We have a lot of different vegetables that you can grow in the spring, summer, and fall. Hooray! Now that your garden is built, start learning about the many different kinds of vegetables that you can grow from seed or plant. 

Interested in building a SYG? Contact syg{at}kccg.org for more information and to get on our waitlist.