Open Magnet Charter

It is our goal to upgrade our existing garden space to continue to allow it to thrive. A Whole Foods grant will allow us to make necessary upgrades and improvements to our existing garden spaces. We need to re-build our raised beds and add raised beds in areas of our physical space that have been deprived recently of sunlight. Our current “main garden” was created prior to the maturation of surrounding trees for shade on our playgrounds. These perimeter school yard trees have made many of our growing spaces obsolete. The original lumber that was used in many of our raised beds has degraded, and we need to add beds as the sun exposure in our main area has changed. We have growing space adjacent to our “main garden” that we have identified as a valuable growing space. We have problems with pests and soil conditions that make raised bed use important. It would be ideal to have raised beds that could be utilized by students with universal physical needs as well.