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General Garden Info: Since its inception five years ago, the Kennedy Krieger High School’s horticulture program has been enabling students with disabilities to plant seeds and monitor their growth into large food-bearing plants and flowers, which students can then sell through a student-run business. Plants are grown outdoors, in a greenhouse, and indoors (during cold seasons). This program provides students with the skills necessary to earn jobs with gardening centers, arboretums, and landscape companies.
Our Gardening Goal: Grant funds will allow students to grow culinary herbs for the My Sister’s Place Women’s shelter, giving them the opportunity to work with a wide variety of herbs and learn skills that would otherwise not be possible due to prohibitive costs of growing some foods. This would be of great help to the shelter, which often relies heavily on donated foods. Wooly pockets will help allow the school to grow and donate products which are unable to be grown and maintained at the shelter.
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We've applied to the Whole Kids Foundation Garden Grant Program!