Harrison Park School Garden Project: February 2010

Thursday, February 18, 2010

$250 Grant Awarded from Annie's!!

Our garden/greenhouse project has been awarded a $250 grant from Annie's, Inc! In addition, we have been entered in a contest to double our money! Click the link below to visit Annie's Facebook page and click on the "Poll" tab. Then vote for Harrison Park! The school with the most votes by February 24th gets an additional $250.

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New Bench Dedicated to our Most Important Volunteer

Here is a picture of a great bench that our school nurse, Carol, arranged to have built secretly for an amazing volunteer here at school: Ralph Leftwich. Not only has Ralph been a major component in getting our garden built and functioning - but he is also involved in many other activities, including running Chess Club.

About the Harrison Park School Garden Project

In the summer of 2009, a small team of dedicated students came together to create and maintain a garden and greenhouse within our school, Harrison Park (formerly Binnsmead Middle School). Students throughout the year will be able to learn about the science of gardening/farming, as well as understand the importance of sustainable farming. We will be posted pictures on a regular basis to show our work.

We would like to thank Portland Nursery for their gracious donations to get us started, SUN School, PEEPS, and Ernst & Young for helping us with volunteers, and Terry & Donna Deacon, and Ms. Konig's class from Bridlemile Elementary for their donations.

We are currently looking for any other possible donors that would like to support our project.