Lovell Elementary

I work in a multi-cultural Title 1 school, and I believe that the establishment of a garden at this school will provide educational opportunities as well as bring our students to accomplish a common goal. Maintaining and caring for the garden will reward the students with vegetables to share with their families and other students in need.

I am a mentor to five students and wanted to have a special project to work on together with them and that is why I came up with the idea to create The Mentor Garden at Lovell Elementary.

The idea for this garden is to make it a special place for mentors and our men tees to work together on a project that is not only educational, but one where we could work side by side planting and caring for herbs and vegetables and learn about the different insects that help a garden thrive.

This garden will teach the students cause and effect. When the plants are nurtured they will thrive and produce fruit. This correlates with a student