The Granby Garden was honored to be highlighted by our superintendent at last night’s State of the Schools event! The partnership between parent volunteers, the Granby PTA, and school staff is what makes our school garden thrive! #itsworthit youtu.be/kUeht54GjPk

If you build it, they will come! The Bottari family put up a birdhouse made by Granby 5th graders in their backyard, and the very next morning it was being claimed by a bluebird pair! Excited for the learning opportunities that await! #itsworthit

Here’s some good news for your Friday! The Granby Garden has a bluebird pair making a nest in our newly mounted birdhouse! Thank you, Anastasia Mayberry and Granby Gators 5th graders, for making this bluebird house to enrich learning at Granby! ❤️🐦#itsworthit

We’re celebrating the one year anniversary of the Granby Garden installation today! 🎉 Check out our video over on the Granby School Garden Facebook page, and celebrate with us! #itsworthit

The Granby Garden is waking up! After “leaving the leaves” in the fall for insects to overwinter, yesterday Care After School students began moving leaves to a new compost bin. There’s nothing better than seeing students learning and working in the garden! #itsWorthit

Overheard in the Granby Garden yesterday during our work session with Care After School students: “I’m working hard! My parents are going to be so proud of me!” “My muscles are getting stronger!” #gardenmaintenance means so much more when kids help! #itsworthit

You never know what you’ll get to experience when you spend a little time in the garden! #itsworthit

We’re grateful to get to join hands as a school community and create this incredible learning tool! Students, we can’t wait to learn with you in the garden! #itsworthit

Before this past Wednesday, it had been 531 days since our last garden recess in the Granby Garden. Hearing the students exclaim, “I love the garden!” over and over again this week made the wait worth it! Can’t wait till next week! ❤️ #itsworthit

The Granby Garden is honored to be the 2021 Sustainability Garden of the Year through the FPConservatory Growing to Green Awards Program! We’re proud of the garden’s commitment to ecological and program sustainability and the many opportunities for education! #itsworthit

“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.” - Rachel Carson 📷 Unrolling a monarch proboscis #itsworthit

Students at garden recess get to hone their sense of sight by searching for new garden rocks. Once they find a garden rock they can hide it in a new spot for another friend to find! SO MUCH FUN (and they don’t even realize they’re practicing an observation skill)! 😉 #itsworthit

We had a sense-ational time in the garden with First Gators today! We tasted, touched, and smelled many different types of plants to practice using our senses as information-gathering tools. 👅👐🏾👃 Thank you, Granby Gators teachers, for setting this up for students! #itsworthit

The Granby Kindergators were Garden Explorers on their first visit to the garden today! Way to go with practicing the actions we want to have in the garden while getting to know the garden through a scavenger hunt!! What a fun morning! Granby Gators #itsworthit

Learning about plant parts and functions comes to life in the school garden! Granby Gators at garden recess today will forever remember that one function of roots is to anchor the plant in the ground! Videos of these hard workers in the comments! 💪🏽 #ItsWorthIt

Warm, homemade applesauce in the school garden just hits different. 🍎🍏😋😍 #itsworthit

The excitement was palpable today as Granby Second Gators gathered to eat salad - the salad they planted, watered, weeded, measured, journaled about, and harvested! So much fun learning for these Granby Gators! #ItsWorthIt

As a friend of native plants, we’re excited to tell you about a free webinar series through Ohio State - CFAES to learn more about the role of native plants in our ecosystem and how individuals can provide much needed habitat for our local wildlife! Check it out! u.osu.edu/certify/tendin…