After finishing up the eight week classroom component to our Garden Science program, we turned our attention to installing a garden at each participating school. Our Garden Science program is only taught in the third and fourth grade classes. However, a school garden allows the entire school community to learn from and enjoy gardening. We wank to thank the University of the District of Columbia's Master Gardeners , who aided us in the design, construction, and planting of the gardens.

The first garden to go in was at Center City Public Charter School's Trinidad campus, who's been a Garden Science partner with us for over five years. We built nine raised beds that lay on top of the concrete in the back parking lot of the building. The following week, we went back to plant up the raised beds. The third and fourth graders from our program transplanted the seedlings that they had started in their classroom back in snowy February. We also transplanted some new seedlings and direct seeded some greens and root vegetables.

 Next up was Imagine Hope Public Charter School. This school has absolutely no green space, with just a tiny blacktop area for recess. However, we found some room in a sunny corner of the parking lot to install a raised bed, along with some containers. Again, the students got to transplant the seedlings that they had started in their classroom, as well as direct seed some greens.

 Our last Garden Science school was Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School, whom we have been working with for two years now. Last year, Stokes installed a fantastic garden consisting of about a dozen raised beds. They've also added some edible landscaping, fruit trees, and an herb garden, again with not much space. Unlike the other two schools, their garden is not directly on the blacktop parking lot, though it is just a few feet away. All of these schools are great examples that school gardens can still be an option even if there is a lack of available green space.