"Feed Thy Neighbor" Garden Project at The Family Tree Relief Nursery

Program Type: 
Garden Classrooms
Grade Level/Age Group: 
Pre-Kindergarten
Number of Individuals Program Serves: 
100
About the Program: 

 The goal of the "Feed Thy Neighbor" project is to model how easy and affordable it is to grow your own fresh, organic food.  Our garden at The Family Tree has produced tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, green beans, strawberries and fresh herbs like chives, that I use in our food program daily.  All excess produce, which there has been a lot, is given to families in our program or to anyone that stops by.  We are anxiously awaiting the result of our "No Soil Potatoe Experiment."  If all goes well, we will be eating potatoe soup grown in recycled boxes filled with nothing but shredded paper scavenged from the school district very soon.