Village Grow Garden                  

By McD & Olie

The Village Grow Garden is an important part of

Village Elementary. It was started by Lindsey McDaniel

and Caroline Rosenbaum. At first, Lindsey and

Caroline thought planting a garden at Village was a

crazy idea. They were researching to see if any other

schools have planted gardens on their campuses.  

After a few weeks of researching, they became more

confident about the idea while seeing that many

schools had done it. The two went to the Village principal,

Debra Barker, and asked if they could have permission

to plant a garden. Once she approved the idea, they

got to work. When Lindsey went home, she asked her

husband Ben to help build the garden. The Village Grow

Garden was born.  A few weeks later Ben got to work

getting supplies from the store and came up with a plan.

Ben, started to build the wicking beds where everything

would be planted. Once he finished laying the tarp at the

bottom and the dirt on the top he installed an irrigation

system. Next, they ordered many plants but had to wait

awhile until they came. Once the plants arrived, they

hired some workers to help them . They finished

planting and about 3 weeks later and they introduced

the Garden to the kids of Village Elementary. After a

few weeks, Lindsay made posters to inform the kids

about the garden.  The kids were eager to see the

Garden. She went to a few classes and told the

kids about the garden, then the classes received

seeds to plant in the planting boxes.  When the

year was over, the summer came dashing by.  So

when the next school year came the two didn’t

realize how much the Garden needed them. After

discussing with a few volunteers Lindsey and

Caroline decided to take more care of the Garden.

But Lindsey came across an issue. Her daughter

Emily, was going into 5th grade and that would be

Emily's last year in elementary school. Caroline

also had a problem. Her son Hudson,was going

into 6th. So, in the long run they had to retire

from the garden. So the two started to look for

some new leaders to run the garden. After a

short time they found somebody new. Her name

is Leslie Walker. She had plenty of time to run the

Garden because she had some younger kids that

would stay at Village for a few more years. But

hopefully the garden would stay apart of Village

Elementary for a long while after them.