Cultivating the Lives of Tomorrow’s Leaders by Learning to Transform Clay into Fertile Soils

The Idea

Convert the clay to fertile soil to grow vegetables, flowers, native plants, and trees. Our goal is to have a solid and self-sustaining community garden with rain barrels and a composting system. We wish to have a little heaven to relax, study, and get inspired in the middle of our concrete city.

Your Team

Mother Nature’s Minions Club and Ms. Fuentes (sponsor & biology teacher) will execute and maintain this project. Our club is partnered with TreePeople and receives support from our GE coordinator.

The Community

The 5 academies, each with 450 students. This school is the first to be built in 89 years in East LA. We will invite all members of the school to participate & know that every contribution is valued.

The Need

Students feel that our school looks like a jail from outside. We will like more nature around us. This will unify the academies & provide students a genuine opportunity to become positively involved.

Location

Humanitas Academy of Art and Technology garden space at Esteban Torres High in East Los Angeles, CA.

Timing

We must start this project at the beginning of the school year, the week of August 20, 2012.

Discussion

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