Susan Richardson of the Community Garden Partnership speaks to the
neighbors at a meeting of the Teaching Garden committee.

What is the Teaching Garden?

The Community Garden Partnership, Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin, the City of Appleton Neighborhood Revitalization Program, Miller Electric Credit Union and the Fox River Academy Environmental Charter School have partnered to develop a community-based Teaching Garden modeled after the World War II Victory Garden concept. Victory Gardens were successful because many people at that time were “closer” to America’s agrarian roots. With the migration of Americans from farm and rural areas to the city and then the suburbs after the Second World War, many people have not had the opportunity to learn garden basics.

This is where the Teaching Garden steps in; to educate and fill this need.

Located behind Jefferson Elementary School, in Appleton’s Pierce Park, the Neighborhood Teaching Garden will provide a “neighborhood classroom” where experts from the University of Wisconsin system, UW-Extension, Fox Valley Technical College, and others will teach people how to garden, grow their own food (including food preparation/preservation) and stress the importance of food security and the impact of gardening on a community’s Homeland Security preparedness. A series of classes, revolving around the garden, will be offered to anyone living or working in the Jefferson Elementary School draw area in Appleton.

What is the Teaching Garden?
Partners in the program
Where is the Teaching Garden located?
Teaching Garden class schedule
Teaching Garden in the news
Teaching Garden Opening News Release
Garden Party Celebration