Garden Classrooms

The Chinati Foundation is a contemporary art museum created by artist Donald Judd in Marfa, far West Texas. The museum presents large, permanent installations by twelve artists and is based on Judd’s interest in the relationship between art, architecture, and the surrounding high desert landscape. Chinati hosts special exhibitions; artist residencies; public programs by contemporary visual and performing artists, writers, and scholars; and youth and adult studio classes.

The Catskill Edible Garden Project, (growing the next generation of food entrepreneurs), works with area schools to create vegetable gardens that will increase access to healthy local food. The program is complemented with educational initiatives related to food resources, awareness of nutrition and agricultural or food related career options.

The Catskill Edible Garden Project offers the opportunity for a hands on youth development experience and exposure to food and agriculture as important aspects of our community, culture and potential career opportunities.

 I'm the Garden Coordinator for Williams Elementary School, a public elementary school in the Almaden area of San Jose.  Though we are not a low income school, we are a high achieving school, which keeps the teachers and students pressured with lots of papers.  I try to get classrooms and children out into the garden in order to learn with their whole bodies.  It's very rewarding, lots of work, and tons of fun.

I can gather police department officials being that my father is a Lieutenant of the Metro-Dade police department. I can also hold a town meeting being that the officials reside on my street. I can get in contact with the presdient of FIU being that I am still a student. I can gather a handful of principals from public and private schools and I can also gather Judicial officials from the state if needed to truly have an impacting message to the community.