Barcroft Elementary School

Barcroft Elementary, a Da Vinci school, is dedicated to creating lifelong learners with exceptional health and nutrition habits. Your grant will enable our students to grow food for two annual events: Farm-to-Table week, when local chefs and farmers serve healthy snacks and share their passion for food; and the First Grade Thanksgiving Feast, where first graders and their parents try typical American Thanksgiving fare, often for the first time. With a new large, raised planting bed, our students will plant, tend, and serve their own vegetables during Farm-to-Table Week. Then the first graders will plant sweet potatoes, during which time they will learn about gardening sustainability, including crop rotation, fertilization needs, and cover crops. The newly planted sweet potatoes will be tended by the first graders and then harvested and prepared by the next generation of first graders for their Thanksgiving Feast, lending to increased community spirit!

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