Garinger Garden and Healthy Way For Us is a document about students in a garden program at Garinger High School. It describes various activities the students engaged in to plant, grow, harvest, and learn about vegetables and plants. The students designed and built garden beds, planted a variety of fruits and vegetables, harvested crops, and created signs for the plants. They learned about compost, fertilizer, and techniques for helping plants grow from the garden coordinator. Overall, the document outlines the students' experiences in the school garden program and what they did to plant, tend, and learn from the garden.

1. Garinger Garden a
Healthy Way For Us
Jazmin Perez
19 years old
Arandas Jal.
Mexico
I speak Spanish &
English
I came to the us
in 2013

2. watering in the
gardenThe student is feeling the
soil while planting some
plants and then to water
them.
When we touch the soil in
the garden serotonin levels
increase and we can feel
more relaxed.
We planted a variety of
plants, fruits, and
vegetables in the garden.

3. MO
Swiss chard is a good source
of nutrients that can help
us for a healthy life.
When the plant is ready we can
eat it or we can take it home.
Students are preparing the soil to
plant Swiss chard in the field.
Preparing the soi

4. We designed some
garden beds and then we
built them.
This is the garden bed model
made with wood.
Here we are helping each other
to build the garden bed.
Garden beds
model

5. The plants can be divided
by section depending on
what the plant it is.
These are some of the garden beds that
students made for the plants
We can plant any vegetable we
want to plant (tomatoes, lettuce,
onions etc).

6. This vegetables that you can see over
here were grown in the bed that we
created. This Swiss chard is ready to
eat.
This is the produce we
have for the Fall harvest
Here we harvested some
different kinds of eggplant.

7. The students are creating signs for
the plants.
These signs can help us to know what
plant is growing and provide the care
they need.
We put the corresponding name in
different languages and then
painted them.
Creating Signs for
the plants

8. Here we are making a
butternut squash soup.
Ms. Mabe teaches us
how we can eat healthy
with vegetables and
fruits.
I really like to go to the
garden because it makes
me more relaxed, and I
learn things that I don’t
know before.

9. Ms. Mabe, the garden
coordinator at Garinger
High School, explains to
us what we need to know
to help the plants grow.
We can grow our own
garden at home to eat
more healthy without
processed food.
She was talking about
the fertilizer that helps
the plants to not have
bugs.

10. Worm Tea
Worm tea is a liquid
concentrate of worm
compost.
This can be used like an
insecticide and help
improve soil structure and
plant health.
This was something
different for us because we
never touched this texture
before.

11. Here we have four arches
that help plants in the
winter by covering them.
These are our newly planted
beds.
We need to separate the plants
because they need their own
space to grow better.

12. In Conclusion
After high school, I want to go to college and be a
pediatrician
My goals are to finish college, have a good job, and have a
family. This year I learned a lot of things that helped
me to have a better life and be a good person.