Malcolm X

Program Type: 
Garden Classrooms
Grade Level/Age Group: 
Lower Elementary, Upper Elementary
Number of Individuals Program Serves: 
500
Year Founded: 
2013
About the Program: 

Project Outline:

Under the supervision and direction of Rivka Mason, the Malcolm X garden instructor and teacher, we propose to engage in a program to encourage children to eat nutritious vegetables that they grow themselves. In her interaction with the children at Malcolm X, Rivka has noted that children loved to eat dino kale and also sour sorrel. She found that they especially liked these vegetables insofar as they had helped to grow it in the school garden. One kindergarten child told her