A dream
became reality when the students at Mt. Tipton School completed their
year-long project of an outdoor community garden boasting six raised
bed gardens. With help and supervision from their teacher, the
students built each garden with hundreds of hand-painted bricks and
hauled the mulch to fill them. Then with advice from two master
gardeners from the University of Arizona extension in Kingman, the
students planted broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage from seed.
Here are pictures I took one month after completion of the beds.
Here are pictures I took one month after completion of the beds.
Then a little more than a year after that, the school held an Earth Day Fair. That's when I took these pictures. There is a life-size chess-board with two- foot tall chess pieces. The centerpiece of the garden is a Panther fountain. This metal sculpture was designed, built and donated by local metal artist Shane Robinson.
This is
where it all begins, in the classroom.
