No child should sit in a classroom next to a dead garden.
Many schools want a food garden: for school feeding, for CBC agriculture and nutrition lessons, and to teach learners where food comes from. Starting one is easy. Keeping it alive through dry spells, holidays and staff changes is the hard part.
ARA installs climate-smart food-growing systems that fit a school compound, trains the people who run them, and stays on to keep them productive. We use cone gardens and moist beds because they grow a lot of food in a small space and use water carefully.
Book a Site VisitEverything needed to go from an empty corner to regular harvests
Cone gardens and moist beds sized to your compound, filled with a compost-rich soil mix and planted with crops your kitchen uses.
Two tracks: teachers, who link the garden to lessons, and groundskeepers, who handle watering, planting and day-to-day care.
Regular check-ins to replant, deal with pests and diseases organically, and fix problems before they kill the garden.
We log what the garden produces, so your board, county officers and partners can see results, not just photos.
After installation, choose the level of support that fits your school. We confirm visits and inclusions during your site visit.
Keep it healthy
For schools with a trained groundskeeper who need scheduled check-ins and expert backup.
More hands-on support
More frequent visits and support through the school year to keep harvests coming.
Fully supported
Our most complete plan, for schools that want ARA to run the garden alongside them.
Running a school feeding, nutrition or climate-resilience programme? ARA can install and maintain gardens across many schools and share harvest data you can use in programme reporting.