Farm and Garden
Containing seventeen books, this area is composed of an open farm area, an outdoor kitchen with class space, a secret garden, and a small themed area for Jack and the Beanstalk. Dominated by a small, Wisconsin-style barn, the farm area is enclosed by a white picket fence. The garden plots are accessible for planting, nurturing and harvesting. Typical farm crops will be grown representing the books Charlotte’s Web and Click, Clack, Moo. The scarecrow from Peter Rabbit guards the crops. Compost bins made from trash cans teach children stewardship and enforce themes from Oscar the Grouch. A barn-like activity shelter and small greenhouse support such books as Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots. A small schoolhouse features a plant-laboratory like George Washington Carver used with a worm box nearby for Diary of a Worm sporting windows for viewing their world. Discover the secret garden at the end of a circuitous path, enclosed by a brick wall just as in the book.
- Explore the barn of Charlotte’s Web finding a message in the spider web, and many authentic farm implements.
- At harvest time make pizza with ingredients from the pizza garden Curious George and the Pizza including oregano, tomatoes and onion. Or try making vegetable soup, Growing Vegetable Soup.
- Learn all about plant propagation –The Magic Schoolbus Plants Seeds.
- Read the tale of Johnny Appleseed.
Garden's Slideshow
Books
- A Day in the Life of Oscar the Grouch
- Charlotte's Web
- Click, Clack, Moo
- Curious George and the Pizza
- Diary of a Worm
- Emeril's There's a Chef in My Soup
- George Washington Carver
- Growing Vegetable Soup
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- Peter Rabbit
- Root, Shoots, Buckets and Boots
- The Magic Schoolbus Plants Seeds
- The Secret Garden
