Grace Lutheran School

Our goals for Grace Garden are to create community service and educational opportunities and collaborative church and school relationships. This project will be service-oriented because a majority of the harvest will be donated to a local food bank. We will plant specific plants according to the needs of the food bank. As our relationship with the food bank grows, we may be able to do other service for them as a school. This project will create educational opportunities through the planting and maintaining of the garden, using the produce to learn about cooking and healthy eating, learning about sustainability and the environment, and using the garden as inspiration for writing and art. As a Christian school we would like this project to include the church members. We are hoping to involve multiple generations from the church into our planting and maintenance of the garden in order to foster multi-generational relationships that can teach our children faith, gardening, and social skills. We will donate a small portion of the harvest to the church to use for members of the congregation that are in need.