In the year 2000 Marjanna de Jong moved from the Netherlands to
Nieu Bethesda and started an educational Vegatable garden twice a week during
school time.
The aim of the project is to contribute to the physical and mental development of the schoolchildren.
The garden also contains a separate
part with crops
and fruit for the school meals.
The annual cycle and experience of
seeding- growing-gardening-harvesting contributes to a greater awareness of the childrens' own possibilities and of the
challenges they face. Of course, there is also the hope that they will long remember the basics and fun of cultivating their own vegatable path.
The Dutch foundation Voed-Saam donates money to buy seeds and garden tools, to maintain the garden and to help pay the salary of a part time gardener.
