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This Woolly School Garden has been generously sponsored by: Plastics Make it Possible
General School Info: Mark Twain Elementary is a Title I school, which serves a predominantly Hispanic population and is 85%+ free/reduced lunch. It is located in Richardson, TX and is a TEA exemplary school.
We have an existing garden with 20 beds and about $250. It took 3 years to raise the funds to start our garden this past March. Please check our progress out on our Facebook page. We have 11 families that are on Food for Families Program. We grow food in the garden, and on Thursday or Friday we try to harvest what we have and provide them with fresh fruits and vegetables for the weekend.
I'd recently seen Woolly Pockets at my local nursery and decided to look them up on the internet. I scoured the website and was immediately drawn to the school program. I had already started a raised bed garden, but I am always looking for new and innovative ways to bring healthy food and gardening skills to our school and community.
We are always trying to come up with new ways of gardening to feed them, and ways that their families can be involved. This would be a great system for us because a number of our families are apartment dwellers, and could use a woolly pocket at home to grow food on their patio!
I would like to grow more fresh food for our students and families to enjoy. It would be great to supplement our cafeteria with fresh produce from the garden or even a salad bar for both students and staff. Taking it a step further would be to have a weekend Farmers Market where our students could learn valuable life skills and utilize math, social studies, and science skills to earn money to put back into the garden or to grow our existing enrichment program.
We want to be gardening by… Spring 2012
Our gardening plan: We want to woolly on the west-facing chainlink fence around the already existing garden.
Curriculum
Installation
Garden Location: We want to woolly around the fence around the already existing garden
Installation Plan: We want to hang the pockets on a chain-link fence around the already existing garden. The fence is west-facing.
Watering & Maintenance Plan: We already have a watering schedule for our existing garden
Planting Climate Zone: 8
First Planting Date:
Plant list: I would like to grow more fresh food for our students and families to enjoy.
Intended seasons:
Curriculum
Curriculum Garden supervisor(s): Jen Henderson
Grades learning in the garden:
Number of students involved:
Fundraising
How will fundraise for our garden: We will hold bakesales- our average bakesale raises $100-150.
We will also apply for the Whole Kids Foundation Grant
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Growing Results
First seasonal planting notes:
Second seasonal planting notes: