My students are innovative, creative and kind. They also face economic difficulties- in fact, 80% of my students receive free/reduced lunch at our site. My wish for this project is to provide healthy food for my students, grow our school community garden to support my students and their family, and also include a native plant area to support our native wildlife and increase biodiversity at our site.
My project will provide healthy food to our students and their family, as well as provide a wildlife way station area to increase biodiversity at our site. We plan on holding farmer's markets with a "take what you need, give what you can" philosophy. We also plan on educating our community about wildlife and how to support our native plants and animals. We would like to grow our garden as a community, and include not only our students but their families and community members as well. Our garden will provide hands on educational opportunities for students as well as a chance for them to support and help their community. In order to make this happen, we need to add drip lines and timers to grow our garden, and enable us to use water efficiently. We also need drip lines in order to sustain our garden over school breaks. We also would like to add additional edible and native plants in order to increase our ability to produce and harvest food for our students and their families.
