About Our Garden

Vegetables, Teamwork, and Leadership

Years ago, the John F. Kennedy Garden Club was started. It's shed, the heart of its operations, was built along with the 9 central boxes. For some time, the garden was maintained but one year, it fell apart.

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Years past with the garden riddles with weeds, unrecognizable to the rest of the school. One day, summer of 2015, a summer program came to revive the garden. This program rescued the garden from the ravenous weeds that had stolen the space. They did all they could but their time was limited. The summer program ended, but work did not cease. One student from the program continued work on the garden. He would one day become the president of the Garden Club. 

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During the first year of the Garden Club, there were few members. There was a short lived team left over from the summer program, but they faded and left the garden. Eventually, a small team of 3, The Summer One, The Mexican, and The Cyclist, took over and continued work. For the first year, they were the garden.

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The next year came, and the 3 were back. They put out advertisements for the garden, thinking nothing would come of them but to their surprise, something did. Around 15 new students came, creating the Garden Club as it is known today. The garden grew, both in size and in plants. All was good.

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Then, the prisoners came. It was a mixed blessing. The garden space had been expanded, renovated, cleared, and leveled, but the plants were gone. The garden was split, it no longer belong to only the Garden Club, but also to the Special Ed Class. Feelings were hurt, miscommunication were made, but eventually both parties reconciled and learned to co-exist. The garden as a whole thrived.

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Third year is here and history is being made. With a new cabinet, and a new vision, the garden can be more than it was ever thought possible to be!