Alexander Valley Elemetary School

After 25 years as a parent volunteer based program, the Alexander Valley School Science Garden now has a credentialed garden teacher hired by the district. With this new wave of commitment and energy, the funds of this grant would go towards the implementation of basic garden kitchen supplies. Not only would the students use these supplies to process and cook foods that they grow, but the larger school community would also be able to use it for festivities based on cooking wholesome and healthy foods from the garden. There is incredible enthusiasm for tamale making parties, salsa parties, pizza parties etc., as well as buy-in dinners for garden fundraisers. The school currently lacks an appropriate space to facilitate these types of events and we would like to see the garden program be able to make the leap from a raw supplier of healthy foods to a space to then process and enjoy the bounty. Implicit in all of this is the focus on nutritional education from farm to table.