The Edible Garden and Classroom at Tyler Arboretum provides seed to table learning about healthy eating, healthy living and sustaining healthy land. Designed at the residential scale, the garden showcases horticulture for the home gardener and connections to the food web that supports all life on earth. The Garden Classroom at the center of the Edible Garden offers year-round opportunities for garden education programs, camp activities, school groups, cooking classes and more. The multipurpose classroom includes a kitchen and opens to terraces on both sides.
Inspired by the Tyler Arboretum’s mission to use natural resources to stimulate an understanding of the living world, the primary exterior roof and wall material of the Classroom Building is terra cotta. Like the baked earth terracotta flower pots common to all types of gardening, the Classroom Building is a vessel for horticultural and food education. To amplify this connection, the Ludowici tiles are fired without glaze mixtures that would alter the natural brownish orange color. A small amount of surface texture was added prior to firing to create tiles capable of hosting airborne microorganisms, pollens, and mosses.
Ludowici Tile walls and roof
The corners, rakes, eaves, and ridge are formed from two and three faced Ludowici tiles
Projects
The Clay Studio
Frances M. Maguire Art Museum
The Cooper
Matchbox
Bigham Leatherberry Wise Place
The Study at University City
Campus Bookstore & Development Office
Caesar Rodney Hall - Dining & Residential
W P Point
Base Camp Delta
Margaret Passmore Trickey Building
Gore Capabilities Center
Multi-purpose Building
Edible Garden and Classroom
Discovery Center
PPR Residence Hall
Jefferson School
Pavilion & Children's Discovery Garden at Sister Cities Park
Housing Northwest Arkansas
300 Rouse
150 Rouse Boulevard
Library Playspace
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
Construction Training & Education Center
Arts Café Expansion & Renovation
Yards Brewery
Shallcross Hall
Bus Shelters
Gettysburg Montessori
Dogfish Head Brews and Eats
Annex Training Facility
The Global Learning Center
The Cove
201 Rouse Boulevard
351 Rouse Boulevard
Delaware History Museum
Barnegat House
Pool Pavilion
Private Residence
Rural Loft
Rittenhouse Hill
Veil Garden
East Lansing 2030
Terracurtain
Corn Mobile
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