- April 26, 2024
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OKES students, Cody Mansell, Jacob Roster, and Stan Valenteychik prepare a home grown salad. Courtesy photo
John and Sanchon Winston stand in front of their home, which was the Selection of the Month by the Garden Club at Palm Coast. Courtesy photo
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Ellen Sperber’s Old Kings Elementary second grade class, and Courtney Van de Bunte’s i3 Academy ninth grade class worked together learning about the nutritional value of homegrown food, the economic value of purchasing produce from local farms, and the effect of beach erosion.
The classes wrote a cookbook featuring recipes that target specific macro molecules. They also attended a “shelter social” hosted by the 2015 i3 BioLit students who spoke about nutrition and the importance of feeding the homeless in the community. The event ended in a feast featuring the cookbook recipes, prepared by FPC’s culinary students, who used locally grown food, including vegetables grown in the second grade class garden.
After the social, the students participated in S.T.E.A.M. night at OKES, and led groups through a station showing the growing of endangered sea oats and virtual garden building on iPads.
The next class collaboration will be in the Spring when they will plant the sea oats on Flagler beaches.
John and Sanchon Winston's yard on Frontier Drive in Palm Coast has been named the Selection of the Month for December by the Garden Club at Palm Coast. The Winstons moved to Palm Coast in 2000 after John retired. They have 7 children, 20 grandchildren and 29 great grandchildren! He is currently President of Flagler County Schools Mentoring Program for children. The Winstons did all the landscaping and bed designs from scratch, and learned what plants, trees, and flowers grow well in Florida. Most beds have beautiful stone with brick edging and some beds have red mulch.
A Pink Lady Sanctuary waterfall, designed by Sanchon, graces the front entrance. The yard features several varieties of colorful croton plants and variegated yellow shrubs, with landscape lighting. The garden includes: Texas Rose (pink and white), caladium, bird of paradise, Francis William hostas, arrow plant, arboretum, aeonium and a tropical plant from Maui John Winston calls a stick plant. Shrubs and trees include hibiscus, azaleas, bottle brush, purple oyster, cedars, and a large yellow winter cassia.
