Hartwood Elementary School

The goal of the Hartwood Elementary School Garden is threefold: 1) to provide students a venue to make real-world connections to the concepts they are learning in the curriculum at school, 2) to give interested students and their families the opportunity to grow some of their own food and learn first hand how good fresh, local food can be, and 3) to reach out to the larger community and provide food support to the food bank at Hartwood Presbyterian Church. This grant will allow us to increase our garden space and the variety of foodstuffs offered, improve our composting system so that it is more easily accessible and protected from wildlife, and obtain fencing to protect the expanded and existing garden beds from wildlife. It would also help us purchase additional tools and build a large outdoor worm bin.