About the Project

Our K-6 garden program offers a once-per-week, after-school Garden Club where 15-20 students make vital connections to the natural world by engaging in and understanding the benefits of gardening organically and eating healthy, locally grown food. We have growing beds, a greenhouse, and a shade house with a small native plant nursery. Building on the strengths of these efforts, our grant proposal expands the current program to provide an outdoor classroom and cooking area where all school classes would engage in a minimum of once-per-week, garden-based lessons that not only provide the benefits described above, but also directly support and improve student achievement of NGSS and Common Core standards in Science, Math, Language Arts, and Social Studies; provide multiple, diverse opportunities for all students to grow as creative, responsible, and caring human beings; and encourage administrators, teachers, students, and families to work together to build a stronger, more mutually supportive community.