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Gardens at Elizabethton elementary schools encourage healthy eating
By Ashley Rader
Photo by Brandon Hicks
Director of Coordinated School Health Regina Wilder and West Side Elementary first graders,
Riley, Nate, Eli and Katie, display some of the tomatoes that were grown in one of the raised box
gardens at the school.
Students in elementary schools in the Elizabethton city school system will be able to literally taste the fruits of their labor with the start of a small number of raised bed vegetable gardens at each of the elementary schools.
Director of Coordinated School Health Regina Wilder explained the gardens were provided through a 2011 HEAL (Healthy Eating Active Living) Appalachia grant. The ECS was awarded a $2,000 grant that covered the initial costs of starting the gardens at Harold McCormick Elementary and then East Side Elementary and West Side Elementary.
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