School Garden Info

The Greater Olympia Convivium (Chapter) helped create the Roosevelt School Garden, providing money, plants, and labor.  Our convivium continues to support the Roosevelt garden, each year by supporting the annual plant sale (contributing perennials, bulbs and vegetable starts for sale and by purchasing plants at the sale).   

Learn More about Roosevelt School Garden at: http://www.rooseveltschoolgardens.info/

 The Garden Group is interested in learning more about plants from the Ark of Taste and growing those plants in the garden.  If you are interested in sharing gardening knowledge or plant knowledge with the parents or teachers and students let Loretta Seppanen know of your interest (Laurel.lodge@comcast.net).

Slow Food Greater Olympia provided about $700 in starts and plants of the $1,850 the Roosevelt School Garden Plant Sale raised on April 30, 2011.

We also provided a few starts to the Meadows Elementary School garden project. 

Support for a new Slow Food project at Meadows Elementary School (Lacey)

We provided volunteers to help a group of low-income students during their 45 minute time in the garden Fridays through June 2011.  Students each had a garden bed to tend.  Their peas, greens, and radishes were ready to harvest by the end of the school year.  

We also provided volunteers to pack up mini CSA boxes that low income youth took home to their families.  

Karen Ray of the Food Bank provided expertise and connection with the school for this work with students.