Schoolhouse Garden
3. Schoolhouse Garden

Horticultural Therapy Programs are conducted in this garden, providing gardening opportunities to those whom would not otherwise have them. The raised beds in the Schoolhouse Garden are currently planted with herbs and vegetables suited to our high mountain climate. Over time, the beds will be planted with medicinal and useful plants of mountain cultures worldwide. Our research so far includes plants used by the Ute Indians that once lived in the Vail Valley, the plants once grown by the Incas of South America, the mountain people of India and some of the remote Himalayan valleys in Nepal.
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4. Schoolhouse Museum and Gift Shop

Built in 1922 and utilized until 1938, this one-room schoolhouse was the third schoolhouse used in the Vail Valley. The Schoolhouse acts as a small museum and contains many original relics including desks, chairs, chalkboard and woodstove. It also houses the gift shop for Betty Ford Alpine Gardens. The gift shop is open from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day and provides customers everything from birdhouses and feeders to small garden tools and T-shirts

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