Academy at Carrie F. Thomas - Garden Design
The Academy of Carrie F. Thomas Elementary Makes Watering Easy!
GARDEN: Tiger Paradise
COMMUNITY SUPPORT
Special thanks to those who provided financial support for our garden:
Special thanks to those who help to keep our garden growing:
AWARDS
- 2012 REAL School Gardens Suzy Peacock Award for Inspired Outdoor Learning
- 2012 REAL School Gardens Community Outreach Award for Smart Potatoes
- Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Seed Grant
WHAT A PRINCIPAL IS SAYING...
"The majority of our students live in apartments where there is very little 'green space' and they don’t often have the opportunity to see a garden much less be actively involved in actually planting, maintaining, and harvesting from a garden. The children perceive the garden as almost magical—every day they are finding new and wondrous things to point out in the garden from the odd fuzzy okra to the way the fish blend into their surroundings in the pond to the milkweed that will hopefully attract the Monarch butterflies so we can observe their life cycles…it truly is a little paradise on our campus." - Sabrina Lindsey, Principal
