Hillcrest High School Garden
Hillcrest High School has ten square metres of vegetable growing beds in front of the school, which are used to grow crops for the Foods Program.
A large proportion of Hillcrest students take at least one semester of Foods and Nutrition.
Garden crops include perennials such as green onion, rhubarb, strawberry, thyme, and oregano, and annuals such as garlic, tomato, pepper, parsley, bean, pumpkin, watermelon, radish, lettuce, carrot, beet, cucumber, zucchini and potato.
In the spring of 2023, Hillcrest is receiving ten new trees through the city’s Schoolyard Tree Planting Program. The trees will provide shade and wildlife habitat on the school grounds.
Volunteers are needed through the spring and summer to keep both the trees and the vegetables watered and weeded. For more information, come and talk to the Garden Club in front of the school, Fridays 11:40 to 12:30, starting April 14th, until the end of the school year.
