Volunteers Build Raised Garden Beds at Moore Magnet

On Saturday Nov. 10, about 30 volunteers gathered at Moore Magnet School to build two raised beds and make other improvements related to the school’s garden project.

The school’s PTA, staff members and students have been working to establish vegetable gardens in the back of the school. Earlier this year, they planted spinach and beets in planters that have a border built with bricks from the first Moore School, which was torn down so that the new school could be built.

“We are soliciting help from the Sustain Ardmore group as well as other businesses in the immediate area,” said Anne Collins, the school’s counselor. “Our goal is to have ‘salad’ in our back green area such that our students plant, weed, pick, and eat what they grow.”

Such people as Vonnie Hannah with Old Salem Gardens and Mary Jac Brennan of the Forsyth County Agricultural Extension Service have been lending their expertise.