Sugarland Elementary School

This garden has many goals; community building, environmental awareness, healthy eating, as well as outdoor activity and education. The garden offers the students of Sugarland Elementary a safe environment where they can be excited about learning in new and different ways about so much more than is contained in a regular curriculum. The garden will also offer students in this Title 1 school, a window into health, that they may not have access to otherwise, the kind of opportunity that will change the course of a students life. Part of health is the community that you are surrounded with, the children will learn that there is a larger circle of people around them who care because of the involvement of staff and other adults. When children grow up with this kind of mentoring and support they are ready to lend the same to the next generation of students as well. From planting a garden and tending to the soil and plants looking forward to a harvest, springs care for the environment. Finally this garden will get students outside, breathing fresh air, hands in the dirt and connecting with the earth and other students while being physically active. The effects of the next generation learning at an early age what its takes to be healthy early on, will be incredibly far reaching.