How many schools in the Los Angeles area can say they have their own organic garden?

How many children living in an urban setting such as ours have the opportunity to plant a zucchini or pumpkin from a seed and watch as it grows into a wonderful, full-sized vegetable ready to be eaten?

We are that school!

Thanks to the tireless work of Kitchie Rescigno and Mary Ellen Schrock, along with our middle school science teacher, Ben Fullon, we are in the midst of completing the following goals:

• Making the garden a bi-monthly part of the curriculum of each class;
• Creating a grassy area in the front and around the sides;
• Adding benches (to be donated);
• Adding power and electricity in order to use our sprinkler system (donated by Ferris Wehbe ) and the solar panels;
• Installing a fountain and adding gravel in the walkways;
• Adding raised beds for the “little gardeners”;
• Applying for grants that would specifically sponsor urban gardens; and
• Creating a program that involves the local neighbors.