Culinary Garden

The garden that surrounds the Kitchen House serves as more than just a resource for our pantry. Our edible landscape provides countless opportunities for inspiration and education. Spanning over three thousand square feet, our all season garden is presented as a beautifully complex ecosystem where the intricacies of nature meet the culinary arts. Edible Education Experience sincerely believes that food is connected to everything and those connections can be traced directly through our garden. Whether discussing the geography and history of food cultures in the shade of a peach tree or observing the biology and chemistry of soil in a compost pile, our garden provides a perfect context for relevant and applicable curriculum. This outdoor “classroom” is more than just hands on learning. We invite you to engage all of your senses as you reach for a better understanding of the world that surrounds us.

In this space we challenge ourselves to weave as many learning experiences as possible into the fabric of a plot of land. Come see how a garden can be more than just peas and carrots. Find how pineapples and bananas, sugar cane and Swiss chard, asparagus and passionfruit all live and grow. Trace the seasonal pathways of the sun. Build a trellis from bamboo grown onsite. Rethink words like “waste” and “resource”. Examine a beehive. Hand pump water from a cistern. Explore the microcosm of our planet in a handful of soil. Rediscover your place in the natural world.