Trinity Preparatory School is partnering with Fleet Farming, a local urban farming initiative, to build a garden on Trinity Prep's campus. The initial planting of the garden included cantaloupe, pumpkin, squash, okra, watermelon, and cowpeas. A documentary about Fleet Farming was being filmed at the planting.
The new campus garden will provide educational opportunities and hands-on learning for our students and faculty, focused on healthy food production. The middle school green club, run by Trinity Prep science teacher and Carol Denicole Endowed Chair Jonathan Gray, will be actively gardening and planting. "This garden will demonstrate our commitment to health by showing our students where the food they eat comes from and by demonstrating that growing food can be rewarding, healthy, and delicious," Gray said. The school will host a garden-to-table program in which food from the garden will be prepared at the Trinity Grille for student's lunches.
"Fleet Farming is honored to be working with Trinity Preparatory School to create an educational food garden. It is our intention to create a space where students can learn about how to grow their own food in a sustainable way," AJ Azqueta, Fleet Farming installation coordinator, said. "Through the installation of raised garden beds and by planting fruit trees, we hope to plant seeds of inspiration of earth stewardship with community reward. For the benefit of students, teachers, faculty, staff, and for the greater good of our community, we celebrate the collective creation of a greener future."