Fayette Academy Ecology Club 

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Join the Action Garden students from Fayette Academy in the new Community Harvest Project, the Bee's Bounty. The goal of the project is to provide our Fayette Academy community families with fresh, organic, non-GMO garden vegetables, fruits, and herbs. Fayette Academy students will plant and nurture the plants in the garden. The first thirty (30) families who return the attached form will reserve their spots for this exciting opportunity. The fee to participate will be $200 for ten weeks of fresh organic produce and begins on Thursday, May 30. 

 

Families will come to the outdoor classroom on Thursday for curbside pickup of the fresh, non-GMO, organic garden produce. Morning pick-up will be from 8-10 AM followed by an afternoon pick-up from 4-6 PM. Each Family will receive an equal share of the harvest for the week including a variety of fresh herbs. 

 

During the summer months, members of the Ecology Club will gain service hours equivalent to a summer job as they work in the garden. Everyone in the Fayette Academy family is welcome to come and help- green thumbs or not. 

 

Fayette Academy's Head of School, Courtney Burnette expresses her support: "I just want to take a moment to share my excitement and the school's excitement for a program such as the Bee's Bounty project to be sponsored and run by Fayette Academy's Ecology Club. We want to offer a community-wide project teaching students the value of hard work and the beauty and peace that can be found in planting, harvesting, and gardening. The fruits of labor are rewarding to both intrinsically and externally in being able to enjoy the produce of their very own work. I would love for our students to engage in a project that feeds families organic, fresh vegetables and fruits throughout the summer and continues to feed our students through our cafeteria as a result of this project. Meaningful work is something so many students don't have opportunities in which to participate. This is a project that produces meaningful work and a meaningful result."

 

After the ten-week project, the garden produce will be shared with our school cafeteria and Fayette Cares. 

 

 

 

 

Garden Planting Plan

 

Early Spring

 

We will plant cabbage, carrots, collard, lettuce, green onions, English peas, potatoes, spinach, radishes, turnip greens, onions, two-year-old asparagus, oregano, basil, chives, dill, sage, cilantro, rosemary, garlic, fennel, and mint. 

 

 

Late-Spring to Summer

 

We will plant green beans, cucumbers, eggplant, okra, peppers, yellow squash, zucchini, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, blueberries, and strawberries.

 

 

Summer Planting

 

We will plant cucumbers, kale, lettuce, potatoes, radishes, spinach, squash (yellow, zucchini, spaghetti, and butternut), tomatoes, turnips, peppers, purple hull peas, green beans, and lima beans.

 

To participate in the Bee's Bounty fresh organic produce community garden, please return the form below. Participation is limited to the first 30 families that return the form. The total cost to participate in this program is $200. (Only $20 a week for the entire ten-week period which will begin the last week of May). Every Thursday fresh produce and herbs from the garden will be shared with the families in the project. Detach below and return to your child's teacher to participate.     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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