Downtown College Prep Alum Rock MS

Our goal is to create a school garden to promote healthy living and eating. School lunches are inadequate at best for giving our students daily intake of fruits and vegetables. Being in a low-income area, fresh produce are hard to come by and they are too expensive for our families to afford daily. We would be able to offset the cost through this garden.

In addition, I can only imagine what our science classes can do with the garden. They will be able to use the garden as a classroom laboratory to see the effects of photosynthesis in their biology unit. The health and wellness class can learn about the reasons why fruits and vegetables are so important to their nutrition and diet. Instead of snacking on chips, students will be able to eat the fruits and vegetables they grew and nurtured.

The school garden will have a tremendous positive impact on our school community. Every stakeholders would benefit from having a garden that would not only nourish the body, but the mind as well.