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Schneider receives Healthy Living Garden grant
| Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 |
Rick Schneider Middle School teachers Pamela Dunn and Richard Van Gilder received a $2,500 Healthy Living Garden grant. The grant will go toward expanding students’ knowledge about agriculture and teaching them how to grow their own gardens.
The funding for this grant is made possible through private donations from Borden Milk Products and Kitchen Craft. The Texas Department of Agriculture’s Urban Schools Agricultural Grant Program is designed to show students how to grow and eat healthy foods so they can develop good eating habits. Through the program, they experience first-hand the hard work and rewards of planting and growing food.
Students meet after-school every Monday to plant a variety of vegetables and fruits and each student is assigned a certain item to grow. The rapidly growing program is open to everyone, and 30 students are currently involved.
“We teach them how to make meals like cucumber salad and we show them how easy it is so hopefully they will make healthy decisions when they eat at home or at restaurants,” said Van Gilder.
This program has been in the making since last year when Dunn and Van Gilder first started planning and writing the proposal. Healthy Living Garden is also working with the Power Hour Program to build an ecology center at Schneider. |
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