Student Participation
When Cooper-Foreman Heirloom Gardens moved to the campus of Kansas City Kansas Community College, students ignored it until the plants began to grow and bloom in the spring. Then they wandered through on their way to class and later brought their sack lunches and used the steps of Esther’s Cottage as a place to study. At graduation time in May, they brought family members to take graduation pictures and in June, wedding pictures.
History of Students in the Gardens
Then faculty from science began bringing students for lab or research projects. Nursing students from Nutrition classes have come at the request of their professor for special 30-minute lectures after which they expressed their gratitude by working 30 minutes in the vegetable garden.
Student Participation
When CFHG moved to the campus of KCKCC, students ignored it until the plants began to grow and bloom in the spring. Then they wandered through on their way to class and later brought their sack lunches and used the steps of Esther’s Cottage as a place to study. At graduation time in May, they brought family members to take graduation pictures and in June, wedding pictures.
History of Students in the Gardens
Then faculty from science began bringing students for lab or research projects. Nursing students from Nutrition classes have come at the request of their professor for special 30-minute lectures after which they expressed their gratitude by working 30 minutes in the vegetable garden.
Interested in Volunteering?
Individuals are always very important to the functioning of the garden. Plants love sun, water and Volunteers. Contact Wayne (913) 522-4483 or Pam Walden (913) 620-6930.
Student Activities in the Gardens
One nursing student visited us several times before she brought her handmade bluebird house as a gift to the garden. She installed it then asked if she could give us a brief talk about the habits of the bluebird. From her we learned that the robin and bluebird are cousins, who switch off their nests each year.
During this last spring semester, the Student Senate voted to institute a Garden Club beginning in the fall semester to work together in CFHG. One student is a permanent worker, coming once a week to help wherever she is needed most. One year the football team from an Overland Park middle school came to plant fall mums and to decorate the gardens with pumpkins. Last year, the KCKCC men’s soccer team came to plant some roses.
Garden Tours
Garden Tours are conducted March through August by arrangement.
Contact Pam Louis-Walden, docent and curator. Call or email at: plouis01@yahoo.com.