Eagles Landing Middle School

. Our garden has been a growing and expanding central focal point of our school for the last three years. What we are doing this year is expanding into a productive and producing garden that not only is aesthetically pleasing, but also producing a useable resource in a healthy manner. We have proposed to have a hydroponic vegetation garden within our outdoor classroom. We would like to purchase 5 EZGro garden sets to allow for a compliment and learning center to our now being built raised bed gardens. We started our gardens for vegetation with a ground based raised bed garden set up. We have just now started introducing plants in to the gardens with student s tending to the vegetation. We would like to host a competition between the hydroponic garden and the soil based garden entitle the great veggie race utilizing the same plants grown in two different circumstances same outdoor location. Then document the information gathered to see which is more successful. This grant would allow us to educate as well provide vegetation to be utilized within our in-house culinary program.