Student garden expansion project – Highland Elementary    April 2018

A good education bears fruits in later life. But it can also bear fruits – not to mention vegetables and flowers – in the here and now. The community of Columbus, Kansas, has experienced this firsthand thanks to a student garden project at Highland Elementary School. Tending soil in the school’s front lawn, students have reaped tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins, squash, and more. The garden began as a summer school project . . .