Pleasant View Elementary

SUAC aims to build the relationship between our community and the food we eat. The DIRT (Dig In R-Twelve) gardens provide K-12 school children with educational opportunities that promote healthy lifestyles and environments through hands-on learning about production and consumption of locally grown food. The DIRT project addresses multiple needs within the community through education and outreach by creating and sustaining school-yard gardens in the R-12 district. This grant will enhance our ability to provide students with year-round gardening and learning opportunities using raised beds and high tunnels for extended growing seasons and active participation, more diverse lessons, and other expansions like easier access to water, to the already successful school gardens. By providing multiple engagement opportunities for children, with curriculum that was developed to address state educational standards, we are teaching children to grow, harvest, and prepare their own at-home gardens.