Litchfield Minnesota Middle School

Our first goal is to get an existing greenhouse at the school up and running. Since being built, the green house area has been too hot to successfully grow plants. Master gardeners, a local CSA farmer, and the owner of the area garden nursery have all made suggestions of ways to correct our greenhouse problems and we are confident with this grant we can purchase the equipment to correct our problems.

In the greenhouse we will grow salad greens and other fast growing, nutrient packed vegetables that can be served in our school's lunchrooms in the spring and early summer. We will also start seedlings to transplant into our school's outdoor garden.

Our school has acreage close to the high school, middle school, and the upper elementary school. Our school's superintendent has given his approval to pursue a school/community garden on those acres. Our goal would be to create an outdoor garden