Sequoia Academics and Arts Charter School

Considering that we currently have a garden but it has not been successful, we realized that we did not have a mission initially. Our mission is to, 1) develop children’s understanding of vegetable production, 2) raise children’s interest in a more varied diet, 3) help children to learn to produce vegetables, 4) produce foods appreciated by our families and students, 5) provide opportunities for our students to consume the vegetables they produce, 6) encourage children to acquire attitudes of cooperation, responsibility, self-esteem, motivation and the value of work.

This project will be beneficial to our campus in a number of ways. When we initially started our garden through our T.H.A.N.X (Think Healthy About Nutrition and eXercise) afterschool program we didn’t have a mission we just wanted a garden. Moving forward, we now have a mission, garden curriculum and vision for sustainability, with these heightened expectations we would like to start a campus wide gardening club. The club would be considered a privilege not a right, so expectations for student performance socially, scholastically, and attendance would be considered.