Hilton Head Preparatory School

Hilton Head Prep recently integrated HI-5-a health initiative that addresses: (1) Community Outreach, (2) Personal & Physical Development, (3) Joy & Spiritual Wellness, (4) Relationships and (5) Food & Nutrition. HI-5 is gaining great momentum with the students, parents and faculty and after polling each group, a garden project received the most excitement. This grant would enable us to integrate HI-5 into our after school program (Prep Plus), which would like to be more than homework and playground time but interactive with cooking and gardening, and into the curriculum. We would like to invite our community to participate in the garden as well, and have already reached out to area garden clubs. As the main coordinator for HI-5, I see an eagerness to learn from students, parents and faculty, which is great because there is so much need here-especially when it pertains to reducing the sugar intake of our students and the environmental and spiritual awareness that comes from gardening.