Contact: Ephraim Smiley
Phone: 260-425-7407
E-mail: ephraim.smiley@fwcs.k12.in.us
County: Allen

We are a health and fitness program for elementary school children utilizing large scale organic gardening as our delivery system for lots of intensive exercise and as a source of pesticide- free dark green vegetables.We are an intensive program growing vegetables in the spring ,summer and fall. We donate 80% of our crop to senior citizens.We think of our garden as a vegetable bank account.Hoping that the seniors will freeze their harvest as a buffer against high utility bills in the winter months.We recycle common waste stream items and build them into valuable garden tools. Bicycles become high wheel plows . Clothes dryers become giant compost sifters.

Number of Kids Involved: 50
Square Feet of Gardens: 400000

Grades Involved:

• K - 4
• 5 - 8

We are interested in being E-Mail Pals and would like to exchange:
Seeds ,tools and experimental data.

Gardening Contexts/Emphases:

• Outdoor, Vegetables
• Community Service
• Intergenerational
• Nutrition / Hunger
• Multicultural
• Composting

Level of Student Participation (hours/week/child): 5+

Number of Participating Teachers: 0

Number of Participating Parents / Volunteers: 11

Number of Parent / Volunteer Participation (hours/week/person): 5+

Funding Sources:

• $ Donations
• In-Kind Donations
• Grants
• Private
• Local

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