Picture by Andrew - Article by Mr. Scalise
CORBETT'S
PEACE GARDEN
With only volunteer help
and donations, a barren school courtyard has been turned into an outdoor
classroom with trees, flower gardens, organic vegetable plots, animal enclosures,
and a waterfall fountain emptying into a small fish pond.The idea began
slowly in 1994 with a few attempts to create a classroom vegetable garden
and to beautify a courtyard which had dead and dying bushes surrounding
a sickly lawn. The Peace Garden project officially began in the Fall of
1995 with an overall goal to create an inviting outdoor classroom where
children and adults could study plant and animal life and find a quiet
and beautiful oasis in an increasingly hectic and violent world. Hummingbirds,
butterflies and other insects, classroom rabbits and tortoises, as well
as visiting ducks, chickens, and goats give the children and their families
an opportunity to enjoy and study animals. The vegetable plots provide
the foundation to study plant life, nutrition, and crops of many cultures.
Corbett's Peace Garden is still growing and developing with the wonderful
help from the children and their families, classroom connections, scout
troops, and community support.
These are different views of our
actual peace garden.
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