LEBANON SCHOOL GARDENS EVOLVING

In cultivation by Rick George from 2002-2014

Partners * People * Funding * Community * Students * Longevity

Developing Our Five Lebanon School Gardens

District Wide - 37 Teachers, 40 Classes with 1,000 students • 2002 Seven Oak Middle School (6-8): 3 teachers, 6 classes - 6th grade • 2009 Pioneer (K-8): 3 teachers, 3 classes - 2nd, 4th and 7th grade • 2010 Cascades (K-5): 8 teachers, 8 classes - K-5th grade • 2010 Hamilton Creek (K-8): 10 teachers, 10 classes - K-8th grade • 2011 Riverview (K-5): 13 teachers, 13 classes - K-5th grade

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Hamilton Creek School - 2010 (4th graders) • (1) 20' x 50' hoop house • (1) 9' x 14' restored cedar concession stand converted to garden shed/store • 3 row aluminum bleachers • 8',4" of 280' non climb deer fence • 16' of elevated cow panels with (10) 8' steel tee posts to create trellises • (9) 4' x 8' planters built with 2' x 10' cedar connecting brackets • Compost tumbler • In hoop house (6) 6' x 6' planters with 2' x 10' cedar brackets • Teaching garden consisting of (20) banked raised bed rows of 35’

Seven Oak Middle School – 2005 • (2) 8' x 40' greenhouses • (1) 10' x 12' rigid plastic garden shed • 5' x 160' of no climb garden fence • 64' of elevated cow panels with (20) 8' tee posts to create trellises • 3 bin cedar compost • 100 individual student garden plots • Teaching garden consisting of (20) banked raised bed rows of 35'

Pioneer School – 2009

• 32' of elevated cow panels with (20) 8' tee posts to create trellises • 3‘,6" x 7' x 40' cement garden vault • Cylinder compost bin • Teaching garden consisting of (7) banked raised bed rows of 40’

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Structures

Riverview School – 2011 • 10' x 12' new wood garden shed • 24' of elevated cow panels with (14) 8' tee posts to create trellises • (5) 4' x 18' planters built with 2 x 10 cedar with connecting brackets • (3) 3' x 8' planters built with 2 x 10 cedar with connecting brackets • Compost tumbler

Cascades Restored Shed

Cascades School - 2011 • 30' x 40' green house • 8' x 8' restored garden shed with aluminum bleachers • 275 square feet of indoor 2’ x 10’ cedar beds • 16' of cow panels with (10) 8’ tee posts to create trellises • .25 acre district wide Production Garden consisting of produce, strawberries and

raspberries • Teaching Garden consisting of (3) 100' banked raised beds with drip irrigation • Orchard of 40 apple trees

1 rear tine rototiller

1 push lawn mower

18 wheel barrows and wagons

14' ladder

30 regular shovels

35 kid shovels

150 wooden, steel, garden stakes

40 lawn garden rakes, hoes

110 kneeling pads

30 pairs of scissors

80 hand trowels and claws

500' string line and twine

160 pairs of garden gloves

80 pairs of rubber garden boots

1 classic produce scale

Cascades Boot Room

Cascades Garden Shed

District Wide Garden Tools

Working on Sustainability

Fundraising

Lebanon Community School District Support & Volunteers

Grants

Donations

Partnerships

Seed packets, plant starts and growing containers Donated by various seed companies, stores, or nurseries.

Soil, organic amendments, (manures, straw, etc) Donated by farm stores, local nurseries, and farmers.

Flowering Dense Trellis of Scarlet Red Runners

Beautiful Reproductive Beans Prepping for 2014 Market

Students Saving Seeds

Ready for Winter Storage

Saving Seeds for Regrowing and Fundraising

Pioneer

Zuchetta Serpent of Sicily Gourds Thriving - White Flowers

1st Graders - Giant Gourds

Cascades Riverview

Seven Oak Hamilton Creek Hamilton Creek

Income – PSOC (Planting Seeds of Change) Partnership Market other saved seeds: Marigolds, Zinnias and Cosmos Hundreds of pounds of produce and berries to school lunch salad bars Sell produce, berries, and plants at Open Houses, Back to School events and Thursday & Saturday Markets

Personnel Rick George - half time District Horticulture Teacher Leader and Garden Steward paid by the district

Lebanon Community School District Support & Volunteers

Angie Gorman – Director of Food Services Dan Carlson – seasonal garden work 10 hours per week paid through Food Services Alesha Evans – seasonal garden work 10 hours per week paid through Food Services

Barbara Rowe - half time Production Garden Manager and Teacher Assistant paid through Food Services and an educational percentage of the ‘Farm to School’ grant

Volunteers – Planting Seeds of Change Sheryl Casteen, Steering Committee Chair

Rick George, Member

Barbara Rowe, Member

Angie Gorman, Member

Grants • Linn County Forestry (2004-2006) • State of Oregon 'Farm to School' (2012-2015) • Samaritan Health 'Social Accountability' (2008-2010)

Donations Financial • Linn Benton Master Gardeners • School PTA and PTC • Local Civic Groups • Individuals • Lowe’s • West Coast Industrial • Wilco • Fred Meyer • Jones Drilling

Grants and Donations

In Kind and/or Products • Lowe's • West Coast Industrial • Walmart • Home Depot • Van Essen's Nursery • Economy Supply (Ace Hardware) • Crawford's Engineering • Diamond M Farm and Ranch • Honey Do Construction • Integrated Business Solutions

Garden boots purchased by Master Gardeners

Kinders enjoying watermelon near the end of class Cascades Kinders moving compost

COMP NORTHWEST - Western Comp School of Osteopath STUDENTS (2011-2014) Freshman students work in garden, teach nutrition

End of year Garden Celebrations and Memorials (Nick Thompson) Host special events Cruising the Gardens (classic cars touring garden and fair)

Partnerships

West Coast Employees work H.C. 3rd graders/ stand background w/ axle

Hamilton Creek Garden Shed and Site 1982-1988 Lebanon Softball Association / 1989-2010 various teams used it as mobile concession then restored in 2013 and placed permanently as the Hamilton Creek Garden – contributors were Lowe’s and West Coast Industrial

Finally a permanent home New vinyl flooring and remove 80’s cork board-chalk paint

7th graders fill planter for future bulbs Lowe’s employees install new fascia boards

10' steel tee posts provide support for 8’4” deer fence

Seven Oak Garden Fence 2009 (PTC money, Honey Do labor)

Lowe's employees stretching

Zip-tying Deron Crawford - Corner Post

Restored Garden Shed/Store

Hamilton Creek recycling rain water

Hamilton Creek Seven Oak – 6th graders

Cascades

Seven Oak

Another Fundraiser – Selling Our Fall Mums

Seven Oak

Cascades

Estimating least to greatest

Class intro on the bales at Riverview

Produce lined up in the rainy day class

Class intro on the bales at Cascades

Garden Classrooms

Converting fractions to decimals

Bleachers and bales at Hamilton Creek

Banana pumpkin heaviest at 11 lbs Acorn squash being weighed

Lettuce weighed and ready for salad bar

Looking for Marigold pods to save seed

Students moving leaves Organic Compost spread over leaves

Kids Hard at Work in the Garden

Pumpkins delivered to each classroom

Putting gardens to bed for Winter

Riverview students preparing pumpkins

Saving sunflower stalks Saving strong corn stalks

Creating 3-D geometric shapes

Learning with Stalks

TEAM WORK

Rick and HC students picking giant gourds! Some seeds will be marketed 2014.

Student Grown Watermelon Consumed During Class

Working Together and Enjoying the Rewards

SO 6th graders in their own garden plots. Nick Thompson memorial bench and white dogwood tree in the background.