Elizabeth Minott

Betsy Minott is the garden coordinator and education technician in the Mount Desert Island School in Maine, working with all students ages 5–14. Examples of her innovative programs include harvesting potatoes and graphing favorite ways to eat them (Grades 1 and 2), and creating seed-to-table salsa recipes in Grade 7 Spanish class. She taught Grade 3 science classes inherited traits by growing  ve different lettuce seedlings. In 2015, The Garden Club of Mount Desert and the town funded a greenhouse to engage students in hands-on food growing to support community connections to nature, sustainability, healthy choices, and food security. Minott created the greenhouse’s programming and according to the principal, “the results are magical.”

Funded by Ridge eld Garden Club, Zone II