HTHMA Community Garden Project
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Community Garden Project:
In partnership with the Loma Club, a 9-hole golf course in Liberty Station, San Diego, students in Chris Millow's 12th grade Environmental Science class from High Tech High Media Arts are building a new community garden, as we have been relocated from our previous location. We broke ground in the upper corner of the Loma Club in May 2016, and with your help the garden will be supplying our community (including the Loma Club and the High Tech High school lunch program) with organic produce by September 2016. This is a student run project where students plan out and maintain a garden, careful to understand companion planting, natural pest control, and water-efficient irrigation. In addition, we plan to have chickens, honeybees, and a composting system where school waste is recycled to feed our soil. The ultimate goal of this garden is to foster a deep connection with where food comes from, and to continue creating a legacy that will inspire a generation of conscious, informed consumers, as well as urban gardeners. The community garden project epitomizes experiential and collaborative learning that deepens connections with self, peers, community, and the world around us. We look forward to your visit!
For more information about our previous garden work and projects, please visit:
http://hthmagarden.weebly.com/
How Your $ Will Be Used:
We want to raise $2500 to help kick-start this effort, although our goal is to raise $10,000. The soil that we are building upon is, naturally, very sandy as it was once a part of the golf course. A first major step will be trucking in enough organic compost, topsoil, and soil amendments to create a healthy, biodynamic, and productive soil. Your donations will be used to help us build soil that will grow a vibrant and verdant garden. Healthy soils are the foundation for healthy communities.
Who is HTHMA?
HTHMA is a public non-profit, directly-funded charter school in San Diego, receiving federal funding for Title I, Title II, and Special Education. Over 70% of our student body is non-white, 60% will be the first in their family to attend college, and over 50% qualify for the Free and Reduced Lunch program. We are a project-based school founded on the design principles of Common Intellectual Mission, Adult World Connections, Teacher as Designer, and Personalization. We are an equity project, seeking to bring together learners from distinctly different socioeconomic statuses, family structures, ethnicities, neighborhoods, etc. to collaborate and expand each others’ views of the world. We support 400 students in grades 9-12 and graduate our students ready for post-secondary institutions. Each senior class inherits the HTHMA Garden as an authentic, capstone experience to produce food with purpose.
In partnership with the Loma Club, a 9-hole golf course in Liberty Station, San Diego, students in Chris Millow's 12th grade Environmental Science class from High Tech High Media Arts are building a new community garden, as we have been relocated from our previous location. We broke ground in the upper corner of the Loma Club in May 2016, and with your help the garden will be supplying our community (including the Loma Club and the High Tech High school lunch program) with organic produce by September 2016. This is a student run project where students plan out and maintain a garden, careful to understand companion planting, natural pest control, and water-efficient irrigation. In addition, we plan to have chickens, honeybees, and a composting system where school waste is recycled to feed our soil. The ultimate goal of this garden is to foster a deep connection with where food comes from, and to continue creating a legacy that will inspire a generation of conscious, informed consumers, as well as urban gardeners. The community garden project epitomizes experiential and collaborative learning that deepens connections with self, peers, community, and the world around us. We look forward to your visit!
For more information about our previous garden work and projects, please visit:
http://hthmagarden.weebly.com/
How Your $ Will Be Used:
We want to raise $2500 to help kick-start this effort, although our goal is to raise $10,000. The soil that we are building upon is, naturally, very sandy as it was once a part of the golf course. A first major step will be trucking in enough organic compost, topsoil, and soil amendments to create a healthy, biodynamic, and productive soil. Your donations will be used to help us build soil that will grow a vibrant and verdant garden. Healthy soils are the foundation for healthy communities.
Who is HTHMA?
HTHMA is a public non-profit, directly-funded charter school in San Diego, receiving federal funding for Title I, Title II, and Special Education. Over 70% of our student body is non-white, 60% will be the first in their family to attend college, and over 50% qualify for the Free and Reduced Lunch program. We are a project-based school founded on the design principles of Common Intellectual Mission, Adult World Connections, Teacher as Designer, and Personalization. We are an equity project, seeking to bring together learners from distinctly different socioeconomic statuses, family structures, ethnicities, neighborhoods, etc. to collaborate and expand each others’ views of the world. We support 400 students in grades 9-12 and graduate our students ready for post-secondary institutions. Each senior class inherits the HTHMA Garden as an authentic, capstone experience to produce food with purpose.
Organizer
Christopher Millow
Organizer
San Diego, CA
