Bolsa Grande High School

Our garden's goal is to teach our organization's members the true value of working hard and self-reliance. To accomplish this, we seek to plant our own vegetables and since vegetables take time to mature, the members will have to be diligent in taking care of the plants, teaching the members the idea of hard work. At the same time, the fully-grown vegetables are edible and provide our bodies with nutrition. Thus, growing vegetables displays self-reliance since the members will understand that they are able to grow their own produce rather than always relying on the stores.
Another one of our main goals is to create a memorial for a student who once tried to bring all of the environmental clubs in our school district together. His dream and hopes were very grand, but unfortunately he did not manage to see them become reality for he was shot and killed earlier this year. Our organization would, thus, like to commemorate him by dedicating a portion of our garden as a memorial for him. This grant would help achieve our goal for the memorial would not only by for us, but for all of the schools in the district and those that knew him.
Overall, the grant will allow us to continue our activities of getting students involved with nature. Our primary fund is through recycling, however, as time goes on, students are less appealed to separate recyclables from actual trash, which diminishes our organization's funds. If we were to continue to rely on this source, it will eventually deplete and our dreams will be no more. Without a strong source to teach growing students or even other adults of self-reliance, then society will inevitably perish at the beginning of a famine. It is, hence, of great importance that we continue growing organic vegetables.