Margaret Mead Jr. High

Program Type: 
Garden Classrooms
Grade Level/Age Group: 
Middle School
Number of Individuals Program Serves: 
1,000
Year Founded: 
2014
About the Program: 

Our overall gardening goal is to provide fresh vegetables and herbs for families in need that visit our school's food pantry. Families that have difficulties making ends meet or cannot afford to put a meal on their tables, from our district, are referred to our food pantry. Our pantry is stocked with healthy choices that have been donated locally within our community, other schools within our districts (a total of 27 schools) and/or donations from local grocery stores. Our hope is to have enough money to purchase materials to transform our current flower bed into a vegetable garden and to build another one. This grant will allow us to fund for this project and help us to continue to give our needy families across the district, fresh vegetables and herbs to put on the tables each day. Another goal is to create a School Salsa Stand, which utilizes the vegetables from the gardens to make salsa. This will promote the idea of not being wasteful and utilizing what we have grown to provide for others. We want students and extended volunteers to get excited about the possibility of a garden in their own homes to make recopies with what they have grown.