Lockwood Elementary School

The goal of our garden is for it to be an educational and welcoming space that students and teachers feel comfortable using. We are so proud of our current garden, but in such a big space we have plenty of room for expansion. We are excited to create an "outdoor classroom" space and build a few more beds. We are also excited to put up the hoop house that was recently donated to us. We hope that with these changes, every grade can be involved in planting a garden bed and that teachers will feel better about using the garden as a teaching space. Since we have experience high productivity in our gardens during the summer months, we are hoping that slight expansion will provide us with enough produce to run a weekly garden stand once a week during the summer months. This will help address the problem of food insecurity in the Lockwood community and give families a place to buy low priced, organically grown produce that their children have helped to grow! We will also be able to provide the recipes that we will do throughout the summer programming with Boys and Girls Club and perhaps our students will be able to use their learned skills to prepare a meal at home.