Growing Food, Growing West
West Junior High, Lawrence KSCommunity Mercantile Cooperative Grocery and Community Mercantile Education Foundation in Lawrence, Kansas have partnered with neighboring West Junior High School to build a permanent 4,000 sq. foot schoolyard garden. The coop has employed six West students to work in the garden, sell produce at a student run market this summer, and supply produce to the cafeteria in the fall. There will be lots of education and curriculum integration, and what we expect will be a beautiful, bountiful garden.
Keep up-to-date on the project at wellcommons.com.
For more information, contact Nancy O'Connor.
Lawrence Community and Learning Garden
Free State High School , Lawrence KSPlans are under way for a community and school garden project at Free State High School.
The project will include plots for members of the community as well as a garden managed by the school's ag ed students. Students will also operate a farmers market and sell garden produce to the school's cafeteria.
Read more about the Lawrence Community and Learning Garden project here.
A news video by Lawrence's Channel Six can be viewed here.
About a dozen community leaders serve on a planning committee. They will have a community forum this fall, and also will form an official board for the project.
Those serving on the planning committee include Ed West; Patrick Kelly, Lawrence school district; Jennifer Smith, K-State Research and Extension — Douglas County; Laura Priest, FSHS ag teacher; Rick Martin, Free State Brewery; Maisie French, FSHS parent; Chris Wiltfong, Hy-Vee Food Store; Mike Ryan, Johnson County Community College; Eileen Horn, sustainability coordinator for the Lawrence and Douglas County; Emily Hampton, Americorps VISTA volunteer; Laura Zell, Lawrence resident; and Tom Bracciano, Lawrence school district.
Keep up-to-date on the project at wellcommons.com.
For more information, contact Ed West, FSHS principal.
