St.

Leo
Illan, Olivia, Jeremiah
Problem Statement

“How can we design a garden that provides

interactive learning and can be used as an additional
food source for the community?”
Motivation & Background
EDUCATION

Mission:“St. Leo the Great School is a welcoming, inclusive, and

diverse community where students encounter Christ in a rigorous

curriculum designed to educate the whole child”

COMMUNITY

This project will also be a project for the community to build over the

summer and reap the benefits from the produce as it will be used not

only for educational purposes but as a food source as well for the

parish community food drives and school lunches.

Critical Customer & Needs
Stakeholders:
● Teachers
● Parish community
● Students
Needs:
● Outside garden
● Accessible teaching
● Food source
Key Results and Completed Tasks

- Week 3: Partner interview and reflection

- Preliminary brainstorming, research, and peak curiosity while in the first few steps of our
collaboration
- Week 4: Team growth and contracts
- Team projects throughout class to bring us closer together as peers in order to work more
effectively together as well as drawing up a set of standards/expectations through team
contract to remain productive moving forward
- Week 5-6: Project introduction, development, and first milestone!
- Lots of researching in and out of class
- Collaboration with rainwater harvesting project
- Field trips to local gardens to view vegetation in our climate
- Second trip to the site for measurements
- Drafts of blueprints
Key Results and Completed Tasks
Green Beans:
-Need lots of sun
-Low maintenance
-Keep an eye out for lady
bugs and slugs
-Weekly water if no rain
-70F ideal soil Temperature
https://savvygardening.com/
growing-green-beans/
Cherry Tomatoes:
-Plant in Spring/summer
-Needs 6-8hrs of sunlight
-Slightly acidic soil, loosely
packed and well drained
-Eventually need stakes,
cage or rail for it to grow
along
-could do drip water, news
1-2 inches a week
https://www.gardeningknowh
ow.com/edible/vegetables/to
mato/growing-cherry-tomato
es.htm
Carrots:
-Plant in fall for SJ area
because of temperature
-loosely packed soil and well
drained, slightly acidic
-6-8hrs of sun/day
-plant 2-3 inches apart, 1
inch of water/week
https://www.almanac.com/pl
ant/carrots
Key Results and Completed Tasks
Steps Left to Complete

● Finalize Design from Each

Member
● Pitch our group proposals to
our Client
● Get stamp of approval from
Principal and Teachers
Final Steps

● Connect with who will

maintain and facilitate the
box production
● Make sure the budget is
not over reached