By Karissa Erven
Students with intellectual disabilities and their peer advocates went out Monday morning to build their fall garden and get their hands dirty.
“[My favorite thing about the garden is] Seeing them interact with different things. They just light up,” junior Peyton Price, Peer Advocate, said.
Planting a garden isn’t all fun and games, though. From gathering the money needed for the plants to getting the help from the students in the program, the garden requires the effort of many to account for its success.
“We earn it any way we can. We have people who donate. That’s what we use for when we sell things like the baskets, and whatever we can to make money,” Mr. Manning, Peer Advocate Adviser, said.
Some of the money from the Spunkmeyer Cookies they sell every “Cookie Day” Wednesday goes towards the garden as well.
“In Nevada, we can do two gardens per year. A fall garden and a spring garden. This is our fall garden,” Manning said.
Earth Day in April marks the planting of their second garden. The students and parents plan on maintaining the garden for years to come.
“I like seeing all the colorful things out here. There are greens and yellows, and they are beautiful,” Keenan Davis, junior, said.
