Kyrene Aprende Middle School

The goal of our on-campus garden is to create a creative, interactive, and unique learning opportunity for our students. The garden is maintained by our after-school club, Aprende Grows. With this grant, our club members will be able to further explore and research agriculture. Furthermore, the members will be able to plant and harvest more varieties of fruits and vegetables; many of which they had never before tasted or experienced. This grant will also allow us to add culinary lessons to our meetings, which will provide the members with manageable ways to incorporate more organic produce into their diets. To benefit all students, we would also like our garden to be used to enhance lessons for multiple classrooms. For example, if a social studies class was studying the Civil War, we would plant a bed to show them what kinds of crops would grow in that time period. Finally, to benefit our community, we would like to donate excess produce to our district's family resource center.