Bring gardens to the schoolyard!

The Whole Kids Foundation School Garden Grant Program with Food Corps. is sponsoring an effort to bring gardening into the academic realm for children. They are granting a total of 2 million dollars towards the cause! 1000 schools will be chosen and granted $2000 to build a garden, or, expand their existing garden. Do all you can to spread the word! Parents and teachers apply for your children's school. Advocates fill out an application for a local school in need of some inspiration. Click here to apply:

Whole Kids Foundation Garden Grant

As of August 28, 2011, Whole Kids Foundation has raised over $708,000 for the School Garden Grant Program.

Kids need to learn about the basics of where their food comes from at an early age. This promotes an early understanding and appreciation towards the value of eating healthy, growing your own food, sustainability, enjoying the outdoors and digging in the dirt.
Kids these days are surrounded by different ideas of entertainment that are reinforced in todays media structure. I find it so sad that the media instills fear in parents to allow their children to be free to play outside, and instead, they are often behind a TV or computer screen. This also reminds me of a great book embracing these very topics,

 "Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder"

by Richard Louv:

"An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world."

Support the future of our world!

Aloha,

Lauren