Taos Waldorf School

TWS seeks funding to transform our education through the ongoing development of our 11 beautiful acres of agricultural land at the foot of Taos Mountain. This involves the expansion of our edible garden, the refinement of a curriculum weaving the garden into our student's daily education, and the promotion of healthy dietary choices. Young children may sing songs about the garden, or plant seeds, while from the same garden the upper grades learn botany, biology, commerce, and so on. Through this grant, we will connect our academic lessons – on sustainability, on resource stewardship – with garden lessons on the same subjects, yet from a crucially different angle. In its continued development, our garden will become a primary asset in building community relations, generating revenue to offset our operating costs, and in driving enrollment. Taos County features many successful farms yet does not have a school offering an immersive garden environment. We seek to fill that critical void.