Students, teachers and community contributors celebrated the grand opening of a brand-new garden at Armstrong Elementary School last week.
It's not your average school garden. It features 12 garden beds one for each of the school's classes to care for embedded irrigation to keep the garden growing over the summer, and a sturdy fence to keep all the nibblers such as deer away from the plants and their yields.
It's a horticultural hotbed that will teach students in a highly agricultural community lessons on nature, food security and the best ways to grow different crops in a North Okanagan climate.
For more information
P.O. Box 129 ~ 341 Shuswap St. S.W
Salmon Arm British Columbia
Canada V1E 4H9
www.sd83.bc.ca
