MES plants multi-purpose garden

MEEKER I Meeker Elementary School students and staff created an outdoor garden project to help inspire a welcoming environment for their school.
Students from first- through fifth-grades worked together to design a pizza, a salsa and a sensory garden. The hope is to use the fruits and vegetables to make pizza, and use the peppers, tomatoes, cilantro and onions from the salsa garden for the annual fifth-grade salsa contest.
The sensory garden will provide a relaxing area for the kids to smell the aroma of lavender, mint and Russian sage and to provide a nice place to rest and enjoy the view.
Students also designed a caterpillar out of colorful tires, along with plenty of artwork, including toadstools, bright popsicle suns and a picket fence of crayons to surround the garden’s border. Many people helped donate time, effort and supplies for the school garden project including Ace Hardware, Samuelson’s True Value Hardware, Meeker General Mercantile, Daydreams, Meeker Sand and Gravel, Meeker High School FFA, Meeker Historical Society, White River Tree Farm, Upper Colorado Environmental Plant Center, PTO and Western Slope Sod Farm.